Yesterday, my weekly Saturday pilgrimage to Nonno’s (vegan) Butcher in the Hamilton Farmer’s Market was sabotaged by an exploding laptop battery. I bet that you did not know that was a thing: the exploding battery, that is, not the vegan butcher. For if you have enjoyed a vegan deli sandwich anywhere north of the Canada-US […]
Me, Mich, Monet, Melissa, Marcon, and (Vegan) Merchants
When I am not writing or trying to write or editing someone else’s writing or just reading someone else’s writing, I like to look at art. I’m currently reading a biography about Jean-Michel Basquiat by Doug Woodham, which means that I am looking at (representations of) art and reading someone else’s writing simultaneously. Tomorrow, I […]
Disability Justice Is Animal Liberation: Cripping the Ridglan Farms Open Rescue
On April 18th, hundreds of activists attempted to rescue beagles from Ridglan Farms, an animal research and breeding facility in Wisconsin. David Killoren wrote about his experience as one of those activists, and defended the use of open rescue to liberate animals[i] from carceral settings. This includes Ridglan Farms, where beagles are confined in 2×4 cages for their […]
Tracy Isaacs: Meat-Eating as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility,” Online, Apr. 15, 2024, 15:15 CET/ 9:15 EST
The Collective Ethics Seminar: Online Presentation – 15 April 2024 – 15.15 – 16.45 CET / 09.15 – 10.45 EST Tracy Isaacs (Western University) – Meat-Eating as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility“ Abstract: Two major lines of reasoning yield the result that we should give up animal products. The first draws attention to the vast animal suffering […]
CFP: Food, Family, and Justice, John Cabot University/Hybrid, Jun. 21-23, 2024 (deadline: Jan. 8, 2024)
Details Food is often produced, distributed, and consumed in families. What does this imply for food justice and for justice in, of and for the family? Current debates over the family – over parental authority, children’s upbringing, the right to procreate, the reproduction of injustice, and so on – tend to neglect the special place […]
