Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he’s got a revised edition coming out: Animal Liberation Now.
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What would it look like to extend compassion to all sentient beings? And can we get there through reason, rather than because a deity or prophet told us so?
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Author, academic, and artist Tyson Yunkaporta offers an Indigenous perspective on some of the core beliefs that have guided my life. Some, like veganism, survive in a different form. Others, like the Hero’s Journey, lie in tatters. And some, like exercise, get transformed and deepened.
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Michael Schwarz is the founder of Treeline Cheese, a plant-based cheese company dedicated to ending the suffering caused by the animal-based dairy industry.
He’s also the child of one of the great heroes of the South African anti-apartheid struggle, Harry Schwarz.
In our conversation, we try to connect the dots between political activism and vegan cheesemaking, between standing up for human rights and creating a company to reduce demand for the products of animal abuse.
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Colleen Patrick Goudreau is author, most recently, of The Joyful Vegan.
It’s a book about joy, yes, but joy as a strategic imperative in a world that is relentless in trying to undermine our resolve about living compassionate and brave lives.
While steadfastness and willpower and outrage can provide bursts of energy for our journey, Goudreau asserts, it’s joy that gives us the long-burning, clean fuel that allows us to come from love and compassion and understanding in all our interactions.
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