Podcasts by Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach Commentary
The Commentary will promote ethical veganism and creative, non-violent vegan education as the primary forms of activism to move toward the abolition of animal use.
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Abolitionist Approach Podcast: An Easy Way to Start a Conversation About Veganism from 2018-08-06T22:32:56
Dear Friends: Here is a podcast that Anna Charlton and I did on an easy way to start a conversation about veganism. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. ...
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Abolitionist Approach Podcast: On the Misuse of“Abolition” from 2018-06-20T15:10:34
Dear Friends: Here is a podcast that Anna and I did on the misuse of “Abolition”. ********** If you are not vegan, please go vegan. Veganism is about nonviolence. First and foremost, it’s about non...
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Abolitionist Approach Podcast: On Anthony Bourdain, Veganism, and Bad Behavior by Some“Animal People” from 2018-06-11T21:46:21
Dear Friends: Here is a podcast that Anna and I did on Anthony Bourdain. I was sitting too far away from the device. The dogs were walking around the room. We will do better! ********** If you are ...
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Commentary: Vegan Education/Advocacy,“Forcing”Others to Go Vegan, and Animal Ethics as Involving Obligation and Not Choice from 2014-05-13T21:46:58
In this Commentary, Anna Charlton and I discuss educating yourself so that you can educate others and the importance of doing education/advocacy in your community; the idea that vegan advocacy repr...
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Commentary #23: Lennox and Moral Reasoning in Animal Rights from 2012-07-13T22:54:55
It’s been a while since I did a Commentary and I have been meaning to start up again but, alas, it’s been a busy time. I was planning to do a podcast on the topic of my essay, Moral Concern, Moral ...
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Commentary #22: A Discussion on Abolition vs. Regulation with Robert Garner from 2011-02-03T12:00:24
Dear Colleagues: My most recent book, The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?, involves a debate between me and Professor Robert Garner of the University of Leicester. In this Commentary...
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Commentary #21:“The Animal Rights Debate,”the Abolitionist Approach Discussion Forum, and a Response to Nicolette Hahn Niman from 2010-11-10T18:24:57
Dear Colleagues: In this Commentary, I discuss three issues. First, I talk about my new book, The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?, co-authored with Professor Robert Garner, and publi...
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Commentary #19: Talking With Non-Vegans About Veganism: Five Principles from 2010-09-14T22:27:33
Dear Colleagues: In this Commentary, I address a topic that I have been asked to cover by a number of you: how do we talk with non-vegans about veganism? I present five general principles: Principl...
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Commentary #18: A Step Backward, the Importance of Veganism, and the Misuse of“Abolition” from 2010-09-04T04:16:19
Dear Colleagues: In this Commentary, I discuss several topics: First, I talk about the announcement by the new welfarist Mercy for Animals that the retail giant Costco has taken a “step forward” by...
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Commentary #17: Discussion with Ronnie Lee and Roger Yates from 2010-05-03T02:50:21
Dear Colleagues: In this Commentary, I have two guests: Ronnie Lee, who founded the Band of Mercy in 1972 and the Animal Liberation Front in 1976, and Roger Yates, an adjunct lecturer in sociology ...
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Commentary #16: Responding to Questions: Single-Issue Campaigns and MDA Opposition to the Abolitionist Approach from 2010-03-26T16:09:47
Dear Colleagues: Several weeks ago, I asked for questions that people would like me to address. I received approximately 80 questions. I plan to do several Commentaries in which I discuss at least ...
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Commentary #15: The Tide Is Turning from 2010-01-26T23:15:36
Dear Colleagues: Victor Schonfeld, director of the influential 1982 film, The Animals Film, followed up his two-part BBC World Service program, One Planet: Animals and Us, with an editorial, The Fi...
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Commentary #14: Analysis of Second Segment of “Animals and Us” from 2010-01-13T03:48:59
Dear Colleagues: The second segment of the BBC’s One Planet: Animals and Us, hosted by Victor Schonfeld (who did the influential The Animals Film in 1982), focused on vivisection. Schonfeld ended t...
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Commentary #13: Analysis of First Segment of “Animals and Us” from 2010-01-05T01:31:09
Dear Colleagues: On December 31, 2009, the BBC World Service broadcast the first segment of the two-part program One Planet: Animals and Us. This program was hosted by Victor Schonfeld, who did the...
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Commentary #12: The Virtual Billboard Campaign: THE WORLD IS VEGAN! If you want it. from 2009-12-22T14:32:51
Dear Colleagues: In this commentary, I discuss the virtual billboard campaign, which focuses on empowering advocates with a positive message that change is possible and that we have the responsibil...
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Commentary #11: Discussion with Professor Gary Steiner from 2009-12-07T04:26:05
Dear Colleagues: In this, Commentary #11, I have a discussion with Gary Steiner, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Bucknell University. Gary recently had an editoria...
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Commentary #10: World Vegan Day—Nov. 1, 2009 from 2009-11-02T04:45:25
Dear Colleagues: Happy World Vegan Day to all of you. In this Commentary, I reflect on the state of the vegan movement. The bad news: the large welfare corporations have done a great deal to margin...
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Commentary #9: Using Sexism to Promote Animal Rights from 2009-10-21T08:57:39
Dear Colleagues: Would Martin Luther King have had an “I’d Rather Go Naked than Sit in the Back of the Bus” campaign? Of course not. He would have recognized that such a campaign would trivialize t...
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Commentary #8: A Discussion of Abolitionist Principles from 2009-09-21T18:03:05
Dear Colleagues: There are some advocates who claim to be abolitionists but who support welfare reform or who support violence. In this Commentary, I explain why welfare reform and violence cannot ...
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Commentary #7: An Up-Close and Personal Encounter with Moral Schizophrenia from 2009-09-08T05:36:16
Dear Colleagues: I refer to the delusional and confused way that we think about animals as a social/moral matter as constituting “moral schizophrenia.” I had a recent encounter with moral schizophr...
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Commentary #6: Aspects of the Vegetarian/Vegan Debate from 2009-08-29T13:06:11
Dear Colleagues: Our first Commentary about vegetarianism as a “gateway” to veganism has provoked continuing controversy and in this Commentary, I address three issues: 1. Does my position that we ...
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Commentary #5: On Violence from 2009-08-22T20:37:15
Dear Colleagues: I am opposed to violence. I regard violence as inherently immoral. I have written about and discussed that issue often, including in essays (1,2) on this site. I recognize that man...
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Commentary #4: Follow-Up to “Pets” Commentary: Non-Vegan Cats from 2009-08-17T15:39:24
Dear Colleagues: A number of people have written to me in response to the Commentary on “pets” to ask about the issue of non-vegan cats. It is my understanding that many cats can live healthy lives...
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Commentary #3: On Michael Vick from 2009-08-14T23:27:55
Dear Colleagues: As you know, I have since 2007 been wondering about why anyone thinks that Michael Vick is any worse than anyone else who consumes or uses animal products. (See 1, 2, 3) In any eve...
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Commentary #2: “Pets” from 2009-08-12T10:29:24
Dear Colleagues: The issue of “pets” is a hot button issue with many advocates. Here is something I wrote in the Appendix to my book Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?: Question ...
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Commentary #1: Vegetarianism as a “Gateway” to Veganism? from 2009-08-09T04:45:55
Dear Colleagues: Welcome to the Abolitionist Approach Commentary. The Commentary will consist of a series of podcasts that discuss and explore various aspects of the idea that we ought to abolish, ...
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