We Do Not Think Clearly

Being Vegan Is Not Just A Matter Of Being 'kind' To Animals. First And Foremost, It Is A Matter Of Being Just And Observing Our Moral Obligation To Not Treat Other Sentient Beings As Things.

Humans Treat Animals As Things That Exist As Means To Human Ends. That's Morally Wrong. Sexism Promotes The Idea That Women Are Things That Exist As Means To The Ends Of Men. That's Morally Wrong. We Need To Stop Treating All Persons - Whether Human Or Nonhuman - As Things.

Veganism Is About Nonviolence. It Is About Not Engaging In Harm To Other Sentient Beings; To Oneself; And To The Environment Upon Which All Beings Depend For Life. In My View, The Animal Rights Movement Is, At Its Core, A Movement About Ending Violence To All Sentient Beings. It Is A Movement That Seeks Fundamental Justice For All. It Is An Emerging Peace Movement That Does Not Stop At The Arbitrary Line That Separates Humans From Nonhumans.

We Should Never Present Flesh As Somehow Morally Distinguishable From Dairy. To The Extent It Is Morally Wrong To Eat Flesh, It Is As Morally Wrong - And Possibly More Morally Wrong - To Consume Dairy

There Is Increasing Social Concern About Our Use Of Nonhumans For Experiments, Food, Clothing And Entertainment. This Concern About Animals Reflects Both Our Own Moral Development As A Civilization And Our Recognition That The Differences Between Humans And Animals Are, For The Most Part, Differences Of Degree And Not Of Kind.