Examines what vegans believe and how veganism corresponds to debates about sustainability, animal studies, the media, identity, intersectional politics, and activism, culminating in the argument that veganism holds radical political potential to disrupt assumptions about how humans relate to animals if it can be reclaimed from commercialization as a radical social movement.
Examines the arguments for veganism as a moral imperative and determines that, while there are good reasons for such a move, they are not strong enough to support that conclusion, while nevertheless determining that we have a collective obligation not to farm animals.
A series of dialogues between two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – regarding the ethical questions that arise in contemplating the consumption of animal bodies as well as why the ethical arguments, even when accepted, do not necessarily change behavior, and how vegans should interact with non-vegans.
Tackles the questions around whether animal advocates should appeal to human, self-interest, environmentalism or altruism, particularly when attempting to persuade people to stop eating animals and argues that “ideological authenticity,” emphasizing animal rights and abolition, should be prioritized.
Featuring Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer, this film exposes the harsh realities of modern factory farming with an eye toward reform.
Making use of drones, as well as hidden and handheld cameras, this documentary reports on the current realities of modern animal agriculture, and places these observations within a context of commentary on the morality of humankind’s relationship with animals. Filmed in Australia, with a global perspective.
A collection of essays by the founder of United Poultry Concerns, detailing 30 years of activism on behalf of chickens and other domesticated fowl. In addition to personal stories, the book highlights the intelligence, as well as the complex and socially rich emotional lives of these birds, and informs the reader of the ways they are treated in modern production agriculture.
Tolstoy’s account of witnessing slaughter, and his conclusion that if a person “be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because, to say nothing of the excitation of the passions caused by such food, its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling –killing; and is called forth only by greediness and the desire for tasty food.”
In considering the role meat has played, and has incorrectly been imagined to play, in the development of human civilization, also addresses the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans and animals.
Discusses how the intersection of technology and increasing attention to the harms of factory farms are moving society toward a food system that is not based in slaughter.