Essays – Page 17 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Irish Car Bombs aren’t Cruelty-Free, but Not for the Reasons You Would Expect

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 7, 2016December 21, 2018

Content Warning: Discusses violence against civilians and children in Ireland during The Troubles. As St. Patrick's Day rolls around, I notice the usual sharing of veganized Irish recipes on social media sites. As with many Western countries,Continue reading

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Conserving What Exactly? Anthropocentrism in College Conservation Programs

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 3, 2016March 7, 2016

University conservation programs often entail lethal Nonhuman Animal testing Jonathan Balcombe, director of animal sentience at the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy, has authored a book that explores the “the inner life of fishes”: What aContinue reading

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Can Veganism Save Your Life? I’m Skeptical

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 27, 2016December 7, 2018

Rip Esselstyn, founder of the Engine 2 Diet Perhaps one of the most dangerous trends in Nonhuman Animal rights activism is the relentlessness of bogus health claims made in the name of veganism. Plant-based eating1 Continue reading

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Derren Does Dairy: When Skepticism Fails Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 26, 2016December 16, 2018

Derren Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic known for divulging the secrets of magicians, psychics, and new age charlatans. Folks in Brown's line of work spend a great deal of effort debunking bogusContinue reading

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What is Post-Speciesism?

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 9, 2016September 9, 2018

[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="568"] Photo from Atlantic Hogs, a "free range" institution in Ireland[/caption] Speciesism is institutional discrimination and, to a lesser extent, individual prejudice against Nonhuman Animals based on their species. Speciesism isContinue reading

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What’s Wrong with “Carnism”?

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 4, 2016September 9, 2018

Many of my readers have asked over recent years why I do not support the rhetoric of "carnism." The short answer is that it is speciesist. In an interview with ARZone, Dr. Melanie Joy discusses her theoryContinue reading

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The White Privilege in Vegan Moral Superiority

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 3, 2016January 26, 2019

I usually love it when I'm wrong. I truly get excited when my paradigm shifts, when I learn new things, or when I see things in a new way. Unfortunately, in my line of workContinue reading

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The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 31, 2016January 18, 2019

As readers may be aware, I take issue with the abolitionist position on atheism and feminism. I won't rehash those points here, but given those developments, myself and aContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).