An animal rights activist’s guide to staying sane: Words of wisdom from PETA’s Alex B.

June 20, 2010 @ 6:20 pm

Any number of terrible things happen to all kinds of animals every day. 10 billion a year are eaten for food a year, for one thing. But the recent Mercy for Animals undercover footage of cows and calves being brutally abused at the Conklin dairy farm was hard for me to watch, and hard to recover from. Sadly, animal abuse is not an isolated case in the dairy industry, or the factory farm industry, for that matter; it’s the norm. The best way to prevent this sort of atrocity is to give up dairy altogether and go vegan.

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Does PETA-bashing help animals?

January 22, 2010 @ 6:42 pm

To set context, PETA recently released a racy 2010 “State of the Union Undress,” raising an outcry from various abolitionist vegan quarters. One of my heroes, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, responded.

I myself ask if PETA relies too much on sexism, shock and B-list celebrities, and whether or not these aspects of their work detract from the cause. I’m a PETA member, I’ve demonstrated with PETA members, and I’ve attended seminars on why they take the approach that they do.

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