Category: Something to chew on
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Some Reflections on Fish and other Seafood
A lot of people ease their way into vegetarianism or veganism through pescatarianism. Pescatarians avoid meat and poultry products, but they still consume and enjoy fish and seafood. In the past, I used to eat fish and seafood despite eating mostly vegetarian. So many “mostly-vegetarian” people will eat seafood on occasion (sometimes as a treat…
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Favourite Vegan Recipe Sites
Last week I blogged about my favourite cookbooks. Having access to the right resources is a hugeThis week I want to give a shout-out to my favourite recipe sites. There are countless sites for good vegan recipes. They don’t replace cookbooks. No long-since hardened batter on that oft-made cookie recipe page. No decades-old annotations about…
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Kindness Matters
kindness noun /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ the quality of being kind kind adjective /kaɪnd/ generous, helpful, and thinking about other people’s feelings (from the Cambridge Dictionary) When vegans talk about their stance towards non-human animals, they often offer thoughts about the importance of kindness and compassion. The slogan “Kindness Matters” comes up a lot, and it is not…
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An Invitation to Be Imperfect
Really I don’t need to invite you to be imperfect. We are all already imperfect in so many ways. A frequent rejoinder these days is “don’t be so hard on yourself.” Few people are harder on themselves (or frankly on others), than people who have strong ethical convictions that they sometimes fail to live up…
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Dining with omnivores: It takes some finessing
I belong to a local vegan group on Facebook, and people are forever asking for input about where they can go out for a meal with omnivores — “nice” restaurants, family restaurants, special occasion restaurants, kid-friendly restaurants that don’t break the bank. Almost as often, someone will name a particular restaurant that they are going…
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Why “Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace Is My Favourite Essay
In 2003, Gourmet Magazine sent David Foster Wallace to do a story on the Maine Lobster Festival (MLF). The resulting article, “Consider the Lobster,” appeared in August 2004. In my view it’s one of the best pieces of non-fiction writing to question the ideology of eating animals, in this case lobster, ever written. It starts…
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Have you tried vegan cheese lately?
Among the most frequent comments people make when the subject of veganism comes up is, “I could never give up cheese.” Indeed, for some people this is the number one reason that makes the very prospect of becoming vegan unthinkable. I used to feel that way, too. Convinced that the transition from vegetarian to vegan…
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Welcome to Vegan. Practically.
Welcome to Vegan. Practically. I’m Tracy Isaacs, a philosophy professor, author, co-founder of and blogger at Fit Is a Feminist Issue, and, since 2011, vegan, if sometimes imperfectly so, for ethical reasons. I offer this blog as an invitation to anyone who is curious, considering, or already committed to making lifestyle and eating choices guided…
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