5 posts tagged “peta”
Perhaps a bit late in the game, but Stephanie from the Change.org Animal Rights blog inspired me to provide a few vegan shopping resources, after she published her own handy dandy list. Please read the comments on her post too, as there is some controversy over Alternative Outfitters and whether they use sweatshops. Luckily, Change.org has a slew of blogs, including one about fair trader, so later Stephanie is able to point us to a great fair trade resource for vegan shoes.
People are talking about the faux-pas of the week: Sarah Palin pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey, and then being unintentionally ironic by giving an interview about it smack dab in front of some guy beheading a series of turkeys.
When I saw my email and twitterfeed start to go crazy yesterday with the news that author David Foster Wallace had killed himself I could quite place who he was. I certainly hadn't read anything by him.
BlogHer's new Animals & Pets editor ClizBiz launched her editorship with an article about Gwynyth Paltro posing for an ad wearing a fur collar. As a prominent veg and eco-mom, it has raised some notable protest, particularly from PETA, and ClizBiz wrote a long thoughtful post with plenty of links to various folks talking about how they draw the lines.
If there are, say, 200 steps to being the perfectly humane person, I think it's safe to say that no one takes all 200 steps. Is it better to take 150 steps than 10 steps? Yes, undoubtedly. But it is better to take any of the steps than none of the steps.
I did what I could, until I could do better.
Thanks you PETA blog for giving me a little reminder, a little kick in the ass, virtually, a little reminder that gelatin is gross, not even vegetarian, let alone vegan, and definitely against my principles. Key excerpt:
OK, it's not that I eat gelatin regularly. It's not like I ignore it presence in foods willfully. But every now and then I get waylaid by a marshmallow or some other product and sort of turn a blind eye.
Gelatin is a protein obtained by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, and/or bones with water. It usually comes from dead cows or pigs, and is found in many kinds of gummy bears and other "treats." This is possibly, as the title of this blog suggests, the most disgusting thing in history. Just think about it for a second... those candies are chewy because they're made of skin and bones.
This post is merely to remind me, and to publicly shame myself into remembering, that this is not OK. And I should not do that anymore.
Now back to our regular programming.
