Who I've Been Is Not As Important

There Is Nothing More 'elitist' Than Thinking Our Palate Pleasure Can Ever Justify A Second Of Suffering Or A Single Death. Please Go Vegan.

Veganism Must Be The Baseline If We Are To Have Any Hope Of Shifting The Paradigm Away From Animals As Things And Toward Animals As Nonhuman Persons.

We Proclaim Human Intelligence To Be Morally Valuable Per Se Because We Are Human. If We Were Birds, We Would Proclaim The Ability To Fly As Morally Valuable Per Se. If We Were Fish, We Would Proclaim The Ability To Live Underwater As Morally Valuable Per Se. But Apart From Our Obviously Self-interested Proclamations, There Is Nothing Morally Valuable Per Se About Human Intelligence.

People Say That Being A Vegan Creates A Social Problem In That Others May React Negatively. But Isnt That The Case If You Take A Principled Position On Any Issue, Whether Its Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Violence As A General Matter—or Speciesism? The Key Is To Educate Others About *why* You Take The Position.

The Proposition That Humans Have Mental Characteristics Wholly Absent In Non-humans Is Inconsistent With The Theory Of Evolution.