Category: myth-busting
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The ableism of arguments from intelligence
A friend to whom I recently recommended Ed Yong’s An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around Us thanked me this week. He loved the book, and rightly so. It’s stellar, as I reported when I read it some time ago. And I was happy to have it brought back to mind.…
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How about carrot cake with cream cheese icing this weekend?
Last weekend and the week before I made the one-bowl vegan carrot cake with cream cheese icing from Nora Cooks. The first time I made it was for a big crowd. I made it as a 13×9 inch rectangular cake and cut it into 36 small pieces. I got one. And then it was gone.…
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Myth-busting: vegan athletes? Yes!
Early into my veganism I co-founded a blog with my friend and colleague Samantha Brennan called Fit Is a Feminist Issue. The purpose of the blog at the time (blog established in 2012) was to try to articulate a feminist approach to fitness in a way that captured a decades-long conversation we had already been…
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