Nz Vegan Podcast

Listen HEREThis week I speak of an email I received, special thanks to Doug Hines, and I speak of a wonderful concept that was given to me by Randy Sandberg.Please visit the wonderful Quotes on Slavery website: http://quotesonslavery.org/Here is a quote I think relevant to the theme of this podcast:"A common criticism is that the time is not yet ripe for our reform. Can time ever be ripe for any reform unless it is ripened by human determination? Did Wilberforce wait for the ripening of time before he commenced his fight against slavery? Did Edwin Chadwick, Lord Shaftesbury, and Charles Kingsley wait for such a non-existent moment before trying to convince the great dead weight of public opinion that clean water and bathrooms would be an improvement? If they had declared their intention to poison everybody the opposition they met could hardly have been greater. There is an obvious danger in leaving the fulfilment of our ideals to posterity, for posterity may not have our ideal. Evolution can be retr

LISTEN HEREI have the absolute pleasure of having Professor Gary L. Francione as a guest.  This is part 1 of the interview.  Enjoy!

LISTEN HERE This is Part 2 of the interview.   with Professor Gary L. Francione.Enjoy!

LISTEN HEREThis podcast is dedicated to DuffyThis week I talk about a situation I personally dealt with and how I chose to deal with it, and I ask everyone to comment if there are anything someone feels needs to be said.I also quote from one of my favourite websites, Quotes on Slavery and this is the quote I chose to read:"I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice" Thanks for listening 

LISTEN HERERevelations!   Now I am wondering if that WAS indeed my first exposure to a video showing animal use, or have I repressed other memories from my specieisist past...?Here is a link to the article I mentioned from the UK abolitionists that made the Aberdeen VoiceHere is a link to the article I mentioned on the Vegan Salt blog: Guest PostThanks for listening!

LISTEN HEREThis is the link to the thread on the abolitionist approach forum I was talking about:"Fears"Here are the new photos of the stall now that Aotea Square is renovated, the square is behind us we are on the footpath next to the main entrance side.

LISTEN HEREThis week I speak with William Paul my fellow abolitionist street staller and vegan advocate from Auckland.  We discuss the NZ Vegetarian Society Festival that was held in October, our future plans for advocacy and we also discuss the Auckland Abolitionist Vegans Association, which we will be launching soon!Congratulations to Jordan Wyatt from Coexisting with Nonhuman Animals for creating the Invercargill Vegan Society!Become a member if you live nearby, or become an honorary member by going to this blog entry and leaving a comment:http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/2010/12/invercargill-vegan-society-business.html

LISTEN HERE (Huge apologies for the terrible audio quality, I hit record without first verifying the input, so instead of my logitech headphones it was set to the inbuilt mic, which is why there is all that noise and stuff.  It happens sometimes lol )Here is the article of the interview with Gary Francione that I mentioned: http://www.free.org.il/english/articles/gary.html(What he says is about "passivity" and exactly is not necessarily what I paraphrased, but it certainly made me understand that the "pacifist" claim made against us is trying to insinuate "passivity" and that is not true).Here is another quote from Gary Francione about this subject:"Those who claim that the abolitionist approach [to animal rights] advises inactivity misunderstand that the idea is to engage in *effective* advocacy rather than in wheel-spinning and counterproductive activity that generates donations and bequests for large groups."Here is the article by Randy Sandberg on his Vegans for Peace website that I mention

LISTEN HEREA thought for the future; not knowing is a wiser way to live in a lot of ways.Those who say, do not know; those who know, do not say. ~ Lao TzuAnd don't be overwhelmed by those darn animal product use diagrams making the rounds, you know the ones I mean, they are very "popular" amongst poverty of ambition advocates as another excuse for despairing!  Let them spur you on to be even more active and even more determined.

LISTEN HEREThis week I am very pleased to have as my special guest Niilo Van Steinburg who is the founder and one of the directors of the very successful abolitionist vegan university group at the University of Victoria, Canada, the UVic Vegan Association.If you live in British Columbia you can subscribe to the UVic Vegan Association by emailing them at:uvacontact@gmail.comYou can also join their facebook fan page at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11596410542Also check out Niilo's blog Seeking Non-Specisism from where he will be soon producing his very own abolitionist vegan podcast!!!  We can't wait to hear it!The forum we mentioned is http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/forum/ where you can find Niilo's "abolitionist mom" Joe and other great advocates, discussing abolitionist veganism and all kinds of other things.Thanks for coming on the show Niilo!

LISTEN HERERelevant links to this podcast:Veganism as a Minimum Standard of Decency by Dan Cudahy from Unpopular Vegan EssaysThe articles about the Vegan Society's advertising of non vegan establishments, inluding a pdf of a thread on facebook that was deleted after they shamefully deleted Gary Francione from the page:http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/i-wonder-what-donald-watson-founder-of-the-vegan-society-would-think/http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/its-not-1946/http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/the-need-for-a-vegan-society/http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/media/pdf/why-are-non-vegan-restaurants-advertised-in-the-vegan.pdfThe article on John Robbins I mentioned, by Mylène Ouellet:http://my-face-is-on-fire.blogspot.com/2010/07/animal-advocacy-leaders-hall-of-fail.htmlAnd finally, a response to the latest claims by welfare advocates pointing to the same study each time it seems:http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/science-weighs-in-animal-welfare-reform-is-useless/Thanks for listening

LISTEN HEREThis week it is my absolute pleasure to welcome back to the podcast Professor Gary L. Francione.In part one of the interview we discuss his new book:The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?which was co-authored with  Robert Garner.Enjoy and stay tuned for part two!

LISTEN HEREIn part two of the interview we discuss single issue campaigns, in relation to the recent debate that Professor Francione took part in with Dario Ringach which was partly the inspiration of the blog essay:Why Veganism Must Be the Baselinewhich I recommend as a must read for all advocates.We also discuss the latest Abolitionist Approach blog essay:Nothing to Do with Sciencein which the latest attempt at using the age old "plant question" is addressed.Thank you, Professor Francione!

Listen HEREWhat are we afraid of? It's not like we are being arrested by the KGB:BBC outlook: Belarus Free Theatrehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus_Free_TheatreAnd if people stopped doing violent things and stupid things we won't have to worry about anything like that, now would we? Please promote veganism!  Peacefully! more to come....

LISTEN HEREThis week I am very pleased to welcome back William Paul who tells us his latest good news and we discuss some experiences we have at with religious advocates while doing our street stall, and also I recount a couple of personal experiences I have had related to that.Thanks for listening and thank you William for coming on the show!

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LISTEN HEREThis week I talk about how important it is that we recognise and help others to recognise that our abolitionist movement for nonviolence is still an abolitionist anti-slavery movement, and our practical focus right now with regard to addressing this problem of violence and animal use has the primary goal, initially, of creating a society in which we can address the abolition of the property status of animals, because that is still where we are at. We haven't even begun to address that! The animal movement still doesn't even have veganism as the moral baseline! But the abolitionist movement does :) By promoting veganism we will create an environment in which we can actually address that, finally! Welfare reforms are useless and do not address the property paradigm. Vegan education does. As Gary Francione said in his latest interview, part of which you can read HERE:‎"At this point, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the l

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Listen HEREWhat an idiotic absurdity it is to say that earnest, persistent, uncompromising moral opposition to a system of boundless immorality is the way to strengthen it; and that the way to abolish such a system is to say nothing about it!~ William L. Garrison (April 23, 1858)From http://quotesonslavery.org/what-an-idiotic-absurdity-it-is/

Listen HEREPart one of the interview with special guest Gary L. FrancioneHere is a link to the website page I am working on about Adoption/Fostering and Sanctuaries. You can find links to some of the sanctuaries and rescue organisations we mentioned in there:http://nzvegan.wordpress.com/sanctuary-and-adoptionfostering/Thanks for listeningPart two is next