Vegans and any individuals blessed or cursed with the ability to stand on the banks of our cultural mainstream and assess both its charms and its madness with a critical eye often feel like souls wandering alone in a surrealistic desert of casinos built of cow skulls. This is why we may gravitate to dystopian fiction or other deeply-felt books about man's place, or rather misplace, in the world. And this is why our hearts go pita pat with gratitude to find a kindred social spirit.  A novel like

In October while tots are busy coloring images of black cats and purple Frankensteins, upward of 8 million American men and women vegetarians and vegans may find themselves in the throes of a domestic form of PTSD: feeling faint and nauseated, with sweaty-palms and ...flashbacks. Sweaty palms? Possibly. But flashbacks? Read on...

Animal Rights Forty Years on: Though much of what Peter Singer covers in the way of data is now obsolete, and his animal rights theory has now been hashed over and fine-tuned by the many writers who have come after him,"Animal Liberation" is that seminal book that launched an essential subject into the public domain. And whatever others may want to say, Signer got the animal rights movement on its most solid track. Its truth continues to resound with the perspective of decades. Some of Singer's

How the ghost of a lamb sprang out of the distant past to remind me of all the ethical values shunted aside in children's minds by parents and adults who pave the way to building walls against common sense and compassion

So Who Wins the Cowardice Award? The Role of Photographer in Trying Circumstances This past month World Press Photo awarded a first prize to this black and white photograph taken by Chinese photograher Yongzhi Chu. "Monkey Training for a Circus" created quite a stir for capturing this image of a monkey cowering before her or his trainer. In November, Yongzhi Chu, who works for the Zhejiang Daily Press Group, caught the photo while in the city of Suzhou, in Anhui province located in Eastern

Sunday in the Life of a Vegan  You wake up with a cup of coffee and non-dairy creamer to the announcement scrolling across your computer that children in Dijon, France, have been burning kittens. Thus begins your day as a vegan., and it's only 6:30 a.m....