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Millennials and Veganism: A Generation’s Commitment to Ethical Eating

August 11, 2023August 11, 2023 Guest Contributor

The Millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1996, has become a driving force behind the vegan movement, prioritizing ethical, health, and environmental considerations. The rise of veganism among Millennials reflects a deeper change in attitudes towards food, animal welfare, and sustainability. Let’s explore the factors that have motivated this generation to embrace a plant-based lifestyle. … Read more

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Removing Meat from Our Diets Won’t ‘Save the Planet’ – It Might Even Make Matters “Worse”

September 6, 2022September 5, 2022 Steve MacDonald

You are likely familiar with the war on meat, but in recent years, the antagonists have upped their game. Meat puppets among the ideologically complicit media happily repeat their claims without a spec of balanced reporting. And everyone is told to believe something misleading or just false.

How About An Illiterate Masculine Carnivore Presenting As a Vegan Feminist Author?

February 14, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Some constructions in the English language demand to be ridiculed, and the Identity Politics Woke-a-Topia is ripe with opportunity. Take this bit about Vegan Feminist Author Carol Adams, who associates meat-eating with misogyny, racism, and white supremacy.

If Morality Is Relative, Then I Can’t Be a Racist and Militant Vegans Can’t Fault Me for Eating Meat.

August 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Moral relativism is a foundation of secular humanism. It’s the idea that no one can know or compel another person’s morality because it can’t. It’s an unintentional corollary to cultural appropriation (or maybe I have that reversed) – another stupid left-Wing idea.

DISCUS Doodlings – “Totalitarian govt is not just one where police and soldiers overwatch with guns”

July 22, 2019 Skip

Reading that title, one should be thinking, at least, of North Korea. China, as well. Those of us who are older remember the Berlin Wall and the East German army and the Western Allies decades long standoff with thumbs ready to put their Safeties to off. I also think of the Stasi, keeping tabs on … Read more

Saying “Bring Home the Bacon” is Oppressive to “Disadvantaged Groups.”

December 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

If milk is the symbol of white supremacy, then bacon is the oppressor of disadvantaged peoples. Meat, the “ancient” cudgel of oppressors. An elitist symbol of ruling class power. A superiority expressed in phrases like “bring home the bacon,” and your “goose is cooked.” Sinister slights wielded by thoughtless elites doing the bidding of the one percent.

Palate Cleanser (?) – Famous Vegan Eating Meat Again

September 26, 2018May 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Alex Jamieson was a vegan for 12 years, appeared in the movie Super-Size me, and has been a well-regarded prominent voice in–they actually have this–the vegan community, but she recently discovered that her body was asking her for things she was not providing. Animal protein. So she began adding it slowly back into her diet, … Read more