The focus on vegan products and dietary practices has created a depoliticized image of veganism. Critical discussions of non-human animal rights and speciesism were noticeably absent in the sample, while the capitalist encroachment on veganism was omnipresent.
Continue readingSociety Writings: Veganism Made Real in Print
In my chapter, “Society Writings" in The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies (Wright and Quinn 2022) published with the University of Edinburgh Press, I examine early vegan and vegetarian organizational literature, arguing its importanceContinue reading
Third-Wave Vegan Feminism and Feminist Animal Studies
In my chapter for Feminist Animal Studies (Routledge 2022) edited by Erika Cudworth, Ruth E. McKie and Di Turgoose, I argue that vegan feminist activism has entered a millennial third wave. This wave, I argue,Continue reading
Ghost Stories Tell Us a Lot about Animals in Human Society
In a content analysis of over 600 ghost stories I published with the peer-reviewed journal Mortality, I discovered that Nonhuman Animals are a sizable feature in the supernatural imagination. About one in ten ghosts recorded inContinue reading
The Social Psychology of Veganism – Can You Read Yourself Vegan?
The processes of persuasion and behavioral change are complex. Social psychologists recognize that information can influence us differently depending on the channel of dissemination. The Nonhuman Animal rights movement relies quite heavily on text-based literatureContinue reading
A Month of Vegan Research: Recruiting Strangers and Friends
The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. J. Jasper and J. Poulsen. 1995. "Recruiting Strangers and Friends: MoralContinue reading
A Month of Vegan Research: Veganphobia
The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Cole, M. and K. Morgan. 2011. "Veganphobia: Derogatory Discourses of VeganismContinue reading
It’s Like, Totally Sexist
In my 2016 publication, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights, I argue that the Nonhuman Animal rights movement banks on sexist scripts in the interest of promoting veganism. To this effect, stereotypes are frequently employed toContinue reading
The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”
But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy? Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading
White Women Wanted? Research Uncovers Diversity Strains in Vegan Media Spaces
A two-part content analysis I began in 2012 has just been published in Societies and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. The first study, published in JAEE examined media diversity in the Nonhuman AnimalContinue reading