In mid-2010, my partner Steffi and I conducted an online survey of self-described anarchists. We collated about 2 500 individual responses and learned lots of interesting, albeit anecdotal things. You can check out the survey here.
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Andreas Spath has written an article on News24 arguing that veganism is not a nutritionally sound diet, and that meat can be ‘green’. And here’s my rebuttal, in point form. I have tagged Andreas in this note [i.e., on Facebook] in the hopes that he will engage the points I raise in more detail. 1:… Read More »
This is a response to Lierre Keith’s argument in The Vegetarian Myth, a poorly researched, fallacious and dishonestly argued anti-vegan screed. It was originally written for www.thevegetarianmyth.com, a never-completed crowdsourced response to Keith’s book. Inconsistent animist ethics Keith defends her position with a confused animist-type ethics that veers unclearly and inconsistently between hylozoism (everything… Read More »
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Lunch
It’s lunchtime, and I haven’t brought anything with to the office today, so I decide to pop down to the supermarket across the road to find something. My requirements are simple: It must be vegan. I don’t eat processed bits of dead tortured animals – I’m weird that way. Because I like orangutans (and rainforests… Read More »
* This is a talk I delivered at an academic animal rights conference in Hunterstoun early 2010. It addresses the dangerous political apathy and single-issue campaigning of the contemporary mainstream animal rights crowd. * It is clear to most reasonable people that apart from the Eternal Treblinka of non-human animals, other crises weigh heavy… Read More »
“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism This short piece is intended firstly as a response to a piece by Granville Matheson (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=81338706851), itself written as a response to the World Day for Animals In Laboratories protest, and secondly as… Read More »
Wherein I explore the complexities of the modern green movement and discovers that the revolution will not be on special in aisle 5. Originally published on a number of South African websites, including: http://www.southafrica.co.za/2010/02/25/it-aint-easy-being-green/ Introduction Although the warnings of impending environmental catastrophe were hotly contended a few years ago (most tellingly by high-paid corporate lobby… Read More »
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Stating premises
Scattered thoughts on what I believe I believe and who I who believe I learned it from. I believe, first and foremost, that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs. As Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson wrote, I am limited in my capacity to conceive of the reality in which I am… Read More »
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Go vegan!
Written for an online green magazine on behalf of the South African Vegan Society What is veganism? Although almost all of us know what vegetarianism is, veganism remains far less well understood. In fact, the majority of people have trouble distinguishing between these two terms and even some self-professed vegetarians are unsure of the… Read More »
A rant about rehash culture and the then burgeoning electro-indie-80’s-etc scene from around 2004. I think I wrote it for a magazine or something….can’t quite remember. “It’s all the same thing, there’s no new tale to tell.” – Love and Rockets, No New Tale to Tell The screen flickers to life as you distractedly… Read More »