From hippies to hipsters: Vegan cookbooks
Every social justice movement has a history of events and milestones that you can look back on to see how far it has come. With veganism, we have a variety…
Activism Down Under Part 2: The Aussies
As my last blog post explained, I was recently in New Zealand speaking at their national animal rights conference. Since I had flown that far already, it made sense to…
Activism Down Under Part I: The Kiwis
I recently had the opportunity to go to New Zealand to give a talk in Wellington as well as speak at the country’s national animal rights conference in Auckland.First of…
Lives of Farm Workers Part III: A Broken System – Corporate Welfare in the Fields
(This is the final section of my three-part blog.)During the testimonial session of the farm worker reality tour we were able to meet some of the children of the farm…
Potato or Tomato?
This past weekend, Food Empowerment Project and SCCAA (Santa Clara County Activists for Animals) had tables at the Green Kids Conference in Mountain View, CA. This first-annual conference was organized…
Lives of farm workers Part II
Click here to read the Lives of farm workers Part I.After spending some time at the home of the strawberry worker, we drove to a nearby labor camp. If you…
Lives of Farm Workers Part I
I don’t consider myself to be an expert on farm workers, though I do feel I am pretty educated on the issue and on some of the history. And, of…
Eating healthy is a disorder?
Last week some articles posted on the internet explored new eating disorders. I always try to have a glance at these just to see if any pro-animal ag person brings…
Crushed by the Rolling Stone
I have been debating on writing this blog because, if you are like me, some things are just too horrible to bear. It has taken me about two weeks to write this because this blog might have a two-fold effect: one positive and one negative. The positive effect is that you will read the article in question, and the negative effect is that you will read the article in question.
Don’t Cry Me a River—Coke Might Buy It
In 2006, I had the honor of speaking at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. I spoke on corporate animal factories and the devastation they were having on animals,…
Been down this road before…
Food Empowerment Project has recently thrown our support behind AB 376, which would ban the possession of shark fins in California.But unfortunately, this blog isn’t about why sharks are one…
It’s Thumper’s Year!
Happy Chinese New Year! As it is the Year of the Rabbit, it seemed only fitting to draw attention to the section of our website that explores the issue of…