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I create regular podcasts and blogs on a number of issues, the main one being abolitionist veganism.

Abolitionist Veganism, Activism, Animal movement, animal rights, Humane Myth, Veganism

Some Thoughts on the So-Called “Animal Rights” Movement

2015-02-09 Vegan Trove

Welcome to my Vegan Trove podcast Ep 10. In this episode, I share some thoughts on the current so-called current “animal rights” movement and I share some thoughts by others about the movement. I talk specifically about certain organisations.

Please note when I mentioned human exploitation, I really meant to say human oppression. I probably could have been clearer when explaining the connection between nonhuman animal rights and human rights.

I touch on how nonhuman animals rights and human rights are linked. I emphasise the need for a strong and morally consistent movement that must have veganism as its moral baseline. I think you will find some excerpts of other abolitionists speaking interesting.

Please view the below letter to Whole Foods by the so-called “animal rights” movement congratulating Whole Foods on their “humane” animal products.

Here’s the link to recommended animal ethics books

Here’s a link to Go Vegan Radio

Please read my disclaimer about links, pages, individuals etc mentioned in my podcast.

Unfortunately a few audio excerpts included in the podcast are lacking in clarity. My apologies.

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Thanks for listening. I look forward to your company again.

Till next time 🙂

Abolitionist Veganism, Chipotle, Direct Action Everywhere, Donald Watson, Humane Myth, Mercy For Animals, New Welfarism, PeTA, The Vegan Society, Vegan Outreach, Veganism, Whole Foods

Direct Action Everywhere (DxE): Welfarist or Abolitionist?

2015-01-25 Vegan Trove

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Friends, I thought it important to address this issue since there’s a number of problems with this particular advocacy group Direct Action Everywhere’s strategy and theory, in particular the most welfarist indicator of them all — their decision not to mention veganism – the very action needed to end the property status of animals.

The links to vegan resources I mentioned.
A list of recommended animal ethics books

Disclaimer: Please note I do not necessarily endorse individuals, opinions, links or ads on external sites.

I look forward to your company next time. Thanks for listening.

"Free Range", "organic farming", Animal Ethics, animal rights, Chris Hedges, Humane Myth, Industrialised farming, Moral compartmentalisation, Nonviolence, Racism, Sexism, slaughterhouses, Speciesism, Vegan, Veganism, Welfare

VT Podcast Ep 8: Veganism and All Forms of Life

2015-01-06 Vegan Trove

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A reading of Pulitzer Prize recipient Chris Hedges’ essay ( posted Jan 4, 2015 ) “All Forms of Life Are Sacred“. His essay discusses veganism and the moral imperative. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize recipient and his bio can be found here. He is also a regular contributor to Truthdig.com and his essays are posted each Monday.

Normally I discuss various issues in my episodes, but I decided there would be some value in reading this essay. Next time I will return to discussing issues as usual. I hope you enjoyed today’s episode 🙂

I apologise for any poor pronunciation of any author’s name.

Disclaimer: Please note I do not endorse opinions of authors nor do I endorse individuals mentioned and I do not endorse any links, opinions or ads on external sites.

Please feel free to leave feedback / comments whether positive or negative as long as it is constructive and civil.

I look forward to your company again.

Abolitionist Veganism, Cisgender-centrism, Heterosexism, Homophobia, Intersectionality, Islamophobia, Racism, Sexism

VT Podcast Ep 7: Intersectionality and Abolitionist Veganism

2014-12-24 Vegan Trove

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Ep 7 is targeted at a specific audience but I’m sure others will find it interesting. With the kind permission of the author of Vegan Ethos, I am sharing her recent blog post which you can view here: Intersectionality and Abolitionist Veganism Part 1

Here’s Intersectionality and Abolitionist Veganism Part 2

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Please note I do not necessarily endorse individuals, opinions, links or ads on external sites.

Animal Ethics, Animal Welfare, calf, cows, Dairy Industry, Gentle World, Humane, Humane Myth, Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, Podcast, Vegetarianism

VT Podcast Ep 6: A Brief Examination of Animal Welfare

2014-12-20 Vegan Trove

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This podcast discusses some articles, one about animal industry and its partnership with Big Pharma. It discusses some attempts to “improve” animal exploitation through sedation of cows, and some other studies in relation to animal behaviour and how predictable it is and how this will be utilised by animal industry to promote “happy” animal slavery to the public. I also talk a little about vegans who try to suppress other vegans from talking about veganism and I read a small piece by Angel Flinn from Gentle World.

As I mentioned, here are some links to some of the topics I discussed and a few extra about the dairy industry.

Cows’ Moos Carry A Lot More Meaning Than You Ever Imagined | Huffington Post Article

Milk Comes From A Grieving Mother | Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary

What is Wrong with Vegetarianism? | UVE Archives

The Meaning of “Humane” | Abolitionist Approach

There’s no such thing as “Ahimsa” Cow’s Milk | NZ Vegan Podcast

A Calf’s Story | Animation by Peaceful Abolitionist

Video: A Better World For Us All

Some Thoughts on Why Vegans Criticise Vegans for Promoting Veganism | Veganism Is Nonviolence

How to become vegan | A Comprehensive Resource | Veganism Is Nonviolence

Thanks for listening. Till next time, have a safe holiday season and a wonderful 2015. See you in the new year I hope 🙂

Disclaimer: Please note I do not necessarily endorse individuals, opinions, ads or links related to this podcast.

Abolitionist Veganism, abolitionists, Afghanistan, Animal Welfare, Chris Hedges, corporate media, Corporatocracy, Deepa Kumar, Democracy Now, Gaza, Heterosexism, Howard Zinn, Imperialism, Islamophobia, Jeremy Scahill, Kleptocracy, Martin Luther King Jr., military-industrial complex, Misogyny, Muslims, Noam Chomsky, Nonviolence, Pakistan, Palestine, Racism, Russell Brand, Saudi Arabia, Sexism, social justice, Speciesism, Sudan, Syria, The Trews, Western Imperialism

VT podcast Ep 5: As a Logical Extension of Justice.

2014-11-28 Vegan Trove

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Disclaimer: Friends please note, abolitionist veganism is about nonhuman animals only. As a logical extension of justice, we should also care about all forms of discrimination. Therefore if I am to highlight a particular issue, then I need to provide the historical background. This historical background I provided is an account of US interventions in the Middle East and the reason I supply this is because rarely is this addressed in mainstream media. It helps us understand the issue better and we can then draw out own conclusions. I’m not conflating veganism with politics. I am commenting on community and our attitudes. If we want to know why something is happening, we need to look to history. It is not “Americanophobic” as someone accused me of being recently. It is simply meant to provide an historical backdrop to the current anti-Muslim climate. If I criticise government in this, that is not an attack on US citizens. In this day and age, governments do not represent the people. Most governments all over the world now have been taken over by corporations. They are a kleptocracy. They do not represent the people. They represent corporations. Mainstream media represent and speak for corporations. So please don’t see view this as an attack on US citizens, because it is not. It is what it is. A backdrop to what I find to be a very distressing situation.

Disclaimer: Please note I do not endorse opinions, links or ads of any individual or their sites.

For more info:

GRITtv: Chris Hedges: Islamophobia is Racism

Video: Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret U.S. Dirty Wars From Yemen to Pakistan to Laos

Manufacturing the Terrorist Threat: From the 1970s to the Obama Era

Black Prophetic Fire: Cornel West on the Revolutionary Legacy of Leading African-American Voices

Chris Hedges: We’ve Decapitated More Civilians Than ISIS Ever Has

Should war on ISIS Violence Begin At Home : Russell Brand

Democracy Now reports on Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS)

Destabiliziation in Latin America

Israeli soldiers told to ‘cleanse’ Gaza – Channel 4 News exclusive

Noam Chomsky: Israel’s Actions in Palestine are “Much Worse Than Apartheid” in South Africa

“A Slaughter of Innocents”: Henry Siegman, a Venerable Jewish Voice for Peace, on Gaza

Results on search “Gaza” Democracy Now

Interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now with General Wesley Clark (2007) : Objective: Take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran

American imperialism and the rise of Islamic extremism in Syria and Iraq (Nov 2014)

In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State

Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Erupts After Grand Jury Clears Officer in Michael Brown Killing

Viggo Mortensen (Nov 2014) Helps Mark 10 Years of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History”

Stop the Violence from Ferguson to Gaza: 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Arrested in St. Louis

Abolitionist Veganism, Insects, Nonviolence, Sentience, single issue campaigns, Social media platforms, Tsu, Vegan Trove

VT Podcast Ep 4: Our Attitude to Those Who Are Vulnerable

2014-11-20 Vegan Trove

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In this podcast I take a look at the problems with single issue campaigns by discussing Sea Shepherd and their anti-whaling campaigns and the unsurprising announcement by Japan to commence whale hunting again in 2015. I speak generally about the problems within the abolitionist movement and a have a suggestion. I speak about our fetishising of certain animals and in this case, Tasmanian Devils and a decision in Australia to introduce them on to the mainland and how our interference might not only adversely effect Devils but other animals around them. I look at insects and our behaviour toward insects. I look our violence toward insects and how our attitudes toward insects are extended to other parts of our lives. I speak about a new social media platform Tsu and my new page I’ve started on there as an alternative to Facebook.

Disclaimer: Although I mention various individuals or sites in my podcasts, please note I do not necessarily endorse these individuals, or opinions, links or ads. Please view my disclaimer.

Thanks for listening. I thank you for your feedback and constructive criticism. I look forward to having the pleasure of your company next time. Please note this podcast is available on iTunes. Till next time, be safe and please, if you are not vegan, please start here: vegan resource

Abolitionist Veganism, Ag Gag Laws, Amazon Rainforest, Animal agriculture, Animal Ethics, Arctic, Chris Hedges, Climate Change, corporations, Ethics, freedom of information, Methane emissions, plant-based diet, Podcasts, Vegan podcasts, Vegan Trove, Vegan Trove Podcast, Veganism, Welfare

VT Podcast Ep 3: Do We Value Our Taste Buds Over Our Own Species’ survival?

2014-11-14 Vegan Trove

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Welcome friends to my third podcast episode. I was going to focus on a number of issues in this episode, but essay by Chris Hedges (Pulitzer Prize recipient) came to my attention titled “Saving the Planet: One Meal at a Time” I thought I would discuss some of the aspects of this essay. 🙂

Here’s an excerpt:

“Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all worldwide transportation combined—cars, trucks, trains, ships and planes.³ Livestock and their waste and flatulence account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) per year, or 51 percent of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.⁴ Livestock causes 65 percent of all emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 296 times more destructive than carbon dioxide.⁵ Crops grown for livestock feed consume 56 percent of the water used in the United States.⁶ Eighty percent of the world’s soy crop is fed to animals, and most of this soy is grown on cleared lands that were once rain forests. All this is taking place as an estimated 6 million children across the planet die each year from starvation and as hunger and malnutrition affect an additional 1 billion people.⁷ In the United States 70 percent of the grain we grow goes to feed livestock raised for consumption.⁸

The natural resources used to produce even minimal amounts of animal products are staggering—1,000 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of milk.⁹ Add to this the massive clear cutting and other destruction of forests, especially in the Amazon—where forest destruction has risen to 91 percent¹⁰—and we find ourselves lethally despoiling the lungs of the earth largely for the benefit of the animal agriculture industry. Our forests, especially our rain forests, absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and exchange it for oxygen: Killing the forests is a death sentence for the planet. Land devoted exclusively to raising livestock now represents 45 percent of the earth’s land mass.¹¹

And this does not include the assault on the oceans, where three-quarters of the world’s primary fisheries have been overexploited and vast parts of the seas are in danger of becoming dead zones.”

I speak about the so-called “Ag Gag” laws and the problem with focusing on animal agribusiness instead of addressing public demand for animal use. I speak also about the problems with promoting welfare reform and the problems associated with large animal organisations and their undercover investigations. I touch on a few other issues as well briefly.

Thanks for listening. I look forward to your company again. 🙂

Disclaimer: Although I mention various individuals or sites in my podcasts, please note I do not necessarily endorse these individuals, or opinions, links or ads. Please view my disclaimer

Abolitionist Veganism, Animal agriculture, Animal Ethics, animal rights, Climate Change, corporations, Ethics, Heterosexism, Homophobia, Human overpopulation, iTunes, Kleptocracy, Moral compartmentalisation, Nonviolence, Oligarchy, Overshoot and Collapse, Podcast, Racism, Sexism, social justice, Speciesism, Vegan podcasts, Vegan Trove, Vegan Trove Podcast, Veganism

Vegan Trove Podcast Episode 2: Speciesism and Other Forms of Discrimination

2014-11-07 Vegan Trove

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Welcome again friends. 🙂 In Episode 2, I briefly touch on some of the topics covered in my 1st podcast. I explore some quotes, articles and interviews and include some of the audio.

Excerpt of transcript of Russell Brand / Paxman interview on BBC’s Newsnight:

Jeremy Paxman: Well, how do you have any authority to talk about politics then?

Russell Brand: Well, I don’t get my authority from this pre-existing paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity. Alternative means alternative political systems.

Jeremy Paxman: They being?

Russell Brand: Well, I’ve not invented it yet, Jeremy. I had to do a magazine last week. I’ve had a lot on my plate. But I say—but here’s the thing that you shouldn’t do: shouldn’t destroy the planet, shouldn’t create massive economic disparity, shouldn’t ignore the needs of the people. The burden of proof is on the people with the power, not people who like doing a magazine for a novelty.

Jeremy Paxman: How do you imagine that people get power?

Russell Brand: Well, I imagine there are sort of hierarchical systems that have been preserved through generations—

Jeremy Paxman: They get power by being voted in. That’s how they get it.

Russell Brand: Well, you say that, Jeremy, but like—

Jeremy Paxman: You can’t even be asked to vote.

RUSSELL BRAND: It’s quite narrow—quite a narrow prescriptive parameter that changes within the—

JEREMY PAXMAN: In a democracy, that’s how it works.

RUSSELL BRAND: Well, I don’t think it’s working very well, Jeremy, given that the planet is being destroyed, given that there is economic disparity of a huge degree. What you’re saying, there’s no alternative. There’s no alternative, just this system.

Jeremy Paxman: No, I’m not saying that. I’m saying—

Russell Brand: Brilliant.

Jeremy Paxman: —if you can’t be asked to vote, why should we be asked to listen to your political point of view?

Russell Brand: You don’t have to listen to my political point of view. But it’s not that I’m not voting out of apathy. I’m not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery, deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations now and which has now reached fever pitch, where we have a disenfranchised, disillusioned, despondent underclass that are not being represented by that political system. So, voting for it is tacit complicity with that system, and that’s not something I’m offering up.

Jeremy Paxman: Why don’t you change it then?

Russell Brand: I’m trying to.

I touch on the problems of large animal charities ignoring the solution to animal “cruelty” and more importantly the solution to abolishing animal use (Veganism), and I expand on a topic I broached last week about the ecological disaster that is animal agriculture and its contribution to species extinction and climate change and how green groups ignore its contribution and why, and I touch on a number of diverse miscellaneous issues.

This 2nd podcast is again a tad long (approx 45 minutes) but I think you might find it interesting. Episode 3 will (hopefully) be in the next 2 or 3 weeks if time permits (I’m very busy till the new year).

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Disclaimer: Although I mention various individuals or sites in my podcasts, please note I do not necessarily endorse these individuals, or opinions, links or ads. Please view my disclaimer: http://www.vegantrove.com/disclaimer/

Please note episodes are now available on iTunes.
Thanks for listening. I look forward to having the pleasure of your company next time.

For more information:

Russell Brand’s “The Trews”

On the Environmental Disaster of Animal Agriculture | UVE Archives

Recommended books

My LiveVegan Page: Another Facebook Casualty?

Abolitionist Veganism, Activism, Amazon Rainforest, Animal agriculture, animal rights, blog, Climate Change, corporations, education, Facebook, freedom of information, Greenhouse Gases, Internet, Nonviolence, Philosophy, Podcast, Podcasts, single issue campaigns, social justice, Vegan podcasts, Vegan Trove, Veganism

Vegan Trove Podcast Episode 1: Introduction

2014-10-26 Vegan Trove

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Welcome to my first podcast. In episode 1. You can find my Vegan Trove Podcast on iTunes.

I meander through a number of topics related to abolitionist veganism. I talk a little about my Facebook page stalling in relation to Facebook algorithms, and in response to that I started a Vegan Trove site to host my podcasts and my other vegan education resources.

I’m an abolitionist vegan. You may ask what is the difference between a vegan and an abolitionist vegan? I talk a little about that. Here’s a brief description: Abolitionist veganism is an ethical position that rejects the property status of animals. It rejects the notion that it is morally justifiable to use animals as long as they are used “humanely”. Vegans reject using animals for food, clothing, entertainment or other reasons to the best of our ability.

I talk also briefly about why abolitionist veganism rejects single issue campaigns, and I touch on the problems of large animal charities promoting the misleading idea that being vegan is “extreme”, “purist” or “hard”.

I talk a little about the myth of the “ex-vegan”. I argue that they were never vegan to begin with.

I speak briefly about the ecological disaster that is animal agriculture and according to a growing amount of evidence, it greatly contributes to climate change. I mention how our animal product consumption is greatly contributing to the sixth mass extinction which is taking place now and how animal agriculture is responsible for millions upon millions of deaths of “wildlife” each year. And I touch on a few miscellaneous issues.

This first podcast is little rough and a tad long but I think you might find it interesting. My next episode will be in the next 2 or 3 weeks if time permits (I’m very busy till the new year), and will probably be more structured.

If you’re wondering what the chiming is in the background, I live in Tasmania on a beautiful bay. They are large wind chimes and it’s a windy day 🙂

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Thanks for listening. I look forward to having the pleasure of your company next time. 🙂 Please note these podcasts will be available on iTunes shortly. I will post a link when they are ready.

For more info:

Facebook Is Throttling Nonprofits and Activists

Google is not what it seems | Julian Assange

Facebook Puts Everyone On Notice About The Death Of Organic Reach

Facebook Zero: Considering Life After the Demise of Organic Reach

A Little Vegan Trove Podcast