Activism

  • The Toolkit of the Vegan Activist

    This guide is intended for independent activists interested in gaining practical tools to create maximum impact for defending animals exploited by humans. The premise of this guide is that you fully understand what veganism is, as originally defined by Leslie Cross; that you align with the abolitionist approach (and have no intention of wasting…

  • The 5 Reasons Why People Aren’t Vegan

    You know that feeling when you talk to non-vegans, and you have this sense that there is simply a chasm between you? That for you, it’s clear as day that animal exploitation is a terrible thing to do, and for some reason friends, family, and most people just don’t get it? And even if…

  • The Problem with Welfarism

    The idea behind animal welfarism is to improve the conditions under which animals are kept in captivity by humans – whether for their meat, their eggs, or any other purpose. For example, this includes banning the use of battery cages for hens in the egg industry (as is the case in Switzerland), or banning…

  • The Vegan Story – Leslie Cross

    Leslie Cross on the left (Text taken from here) A talk given to the Hasting and St. Leonards Branch of the Sussex Vegetarian Society, July, 1955 The first thing I would like to do is draw your attention to the title of this talk – The Vegan Story. I have called it that, because…

  • Start Here!

    Whether you are new vegans or veterans, I hope you arrived here because you internalizedthree things that most vegans have not yet fully grasped. The first thing is the degree of injustice that animals undergo. Trillions of victims every year areexploited in slaughterhouses, dairy farms, chicken coops, testing labs, fishing pools, oceans,zoos, and a…