Listen HEREThis is the article I mentioned about pets: https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/pets-the-inherent-problems-of-domestication/ Please read it. This is a link to the famous debate with Erik Marcus, highly recommended listen: https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/my-dinner-at-eriks-happy-meat-diner/ Thanks for listening 

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NZVP Ep. 150 - Another "victory" that wasn't

 Listen HEREThis is the podcast episode I was interviewed on that I mentioned: https://alwaysforanimalrights.blogspot.com/2020/11/episode-43-why-animal-rights-advocates.htmlThanks for listening 

NZVP Ep. 149 - on engendering hostility

Listen HEREThanks for listening, sorry about the terrible sound quality and thanks for listening. 

NZVP Ep. 148 - Kia kaha and be safe and remember - don't compromise the moral message no matter what

Listen HEREThanks for listeningIf you hear a sound like angry bees it's the car racing that happens near my house all summer long :/ Sorry about the noise.Happy New Year 

NZVP Ep. 147 - Happy Abolitionist Approach Vegan New Year 2020

Listen HEREHere is a link to Animals as Persons - please read it!: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/animals-as-persons/9780231139502Here is the facebook page of the Abolitionist Vegan Weekly Tabling with Vanda Kadas and Mariana Landeros Corona: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Abolitionist-Vegan-Weekly-Tabling-2003263296583131/posts/?ref=page_internalThanks for listening 

NZVP Ep. 146 - lets bring it back to the moral personhood of all animals

Listen HEREHere we are at the new and improved easy-to-manage street stall.  Thanks to Jeff for designing the tablecloth.  We are back!!!!!!!! 

ZVP Ep. 145 - DXE has officially come to NZ. Great.

Listen HEREThanks so much to Jeff for coming on the show and for being my fellow street stall advocate!Thanks for listening. 

NZVP Episode 144 Special guest Jeff Lyons from the NZ Vegan Street Stall

Listen HEREHere is a link to the Webinars I mentioned: LINK HEREHere is the one that I think they really talk a lot about the issue that I am talking about in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4-28gwQYTc 

NZVP Ep. 143 - New Years Resolution - Be More Social

Listen HERESorry about all the popped 'p's - I had the mic in a bad place.  I used to edit them out in pro tools but I hate Garageband and that's all I've got, I don't know how to use it properly to do cross fades.  Sorry, it must sound awful in headphones. Please forgive me.Thanks 

NZVP Ep. 142 - Domestication Issues

Listen HEREWow. I was sheltered for so long at my job.  This is getting back out into the real world and I am finding out again about all my limitations and the things holding me back (myself, basically). It's a painful look in the mirror but worth doing.Here is Peggy's video from The World Vegan Summit - it is so inspiring.  All the videos from the abolitionist approach advocates are so please watch them all.PLEASE learn The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights.  Read the Six Principles.  Go on the website and watch all the Videos.  Read the Books - try to get them at your local library if you can't afford to buy them.We can do this people!  We must.Here is my badge I was talking about, that I wear every dayNotes and corrections:1. ARGH so sorry the condition I was talking about is IRITIS (not Rinitis!!!) or Uveitis - here is information about it, it's good to learn about different things people are going through. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/798323-overview2. I completely forgot that years ago I had heard of one situation that a vegan was going through, who did have a terrible medical condition in which her body could not make or maintain its own cholesterol, and therefore was in an awful situation as was really really struggling to find a way to maintain her vegan diet without dying, literally.  It was a very hard thing, and a long struggle, that was very real, and this was a situation in which animal products (which unlike plants contain cholesterol) seemed to be the only medically viable option for them.  Luckily, and also because this person believed in animal rights they finally found a way (I don't know the exact details) to manage it without having to compromise their veganism.  So I actually also relayed that story to the person I was talking to as well, using it as an example to talk about the animal rights point of view. 3. Sorry if the quality is so bad, I was just planning to do a 10 minute video but it turned into 40 minutes so too big for me to figure out how to upload, so it's now a podcast with really bad audio quality. 

NZVP Ep.141 - getting back out there again and managing insecurities fear and paranoia and conditioning

Listen HEREHere is the podcast with Wayne Hsiung, Gary Francione and Bob Lindenhttp://www.goveganradio.com/go-vegan-radio-615/ - the discussion occurs starting at about 36 minutes into the show.Here is the ever important, historical, monumental must listen debate between Erik Marcus and Gary Francione (if calling it a 'conversation' will make you listen to it, then call it a conversation) it's a MUST LISTEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NWA4Rf120Here is a link to Gary Francione's BOOKS.  READ THEM!  http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/books/This is Rain Without Thunder, published in 1996: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/the-necessity-of-theory/We know the world isn't going to go vegan overnight okay????http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/abolition-simple-concepts-pop-quiz/This is that blog post I talked about about the coalition needed for these single issue campaigns (also discussed in the podcast with Bob Linden and Wayne Hsiung). It's called" Why Welfare Reform Campaigns and Single-Issue Campaigns Necessarily Promote Animal Exploitation http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/14542-2/Here is the blog post on the importance of theory and how everyone, even those who says they don't subscribe to theory, is actually operating under some kind of theory:http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/the-necessity-of-theory/Here is that podcast I did about "one way" activism:http://nzveganpodcast.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/nzvp-ep132-earthlings-experience-and.htmlCheck out Vanda Kadas' facebook page to see her fantastic, REGULARLY OCCURRING abolitionist approach vegan stall that she does every week!!! Here is a photo:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155228092022895&set=t.729047894&type=3&theater 

NZVP Ep. 140 - Yes, I do want to discourage you from single issue activism and welfarist activism

Listen HERESo this is a confessional with a New Year's resolution attached.Here is a link to the saved recordings of the Webinar videos with Gary Francione and Anna Charlton - the one called Advocate For Animals is the latest one but they are all worth a watch. You can also sign up to see them live and have your questions answered live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z57FK4Zf0xs&list=PLAg_TeZ267R6313TaOwEFJoxhUsRx1c_UCheck out the new book!!  Advocate for Animals!: here is a blog post about it with a link at the top to where you can get it: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/new-book-advocate-for-animals-an-abolitionist-vegan-handbook/Here is the How Do I Go Vegan website:  www.howdoigovegan.com there is a link to their Facebook pageFrances McCormack is the vegan mentor from How Do I Go Vegan (there might be other people too that I don't know about!): http://www.howdoigovegan.com/mentoring/Here is a post showing their week of fast easy meal ideas (this is from Facebook page): https://www.facebook.com/notes/howdoigovegancom/a-week-of-fast-food-meal-ideas/526632434358925/Here is a link to the International Vegan Association Nutrition guide if you live overseas and I highly recommend it: https://www.internationalvegan.org/nutrition/Thanks for listening! 

NZVP Ep. 139 - Happy New Year 2018

LISTEN HEREThis is the article about China's factory conditions I mentioned:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/china/news/article.cfm?l_id=28&objectid=10722773Here is a link to the YouTube channel for Paola Aldana that I mentioned:http://www.youtube.com/user/porolita22 (English)http://www.youtube.com/user/porolita (Español)Here is a quote from Gary Francione on the word "compassion" (in relation to what I talk about at the very end of the podcast):"Is our obligation not to be racist or sexist a matter of "compassion"? No. it's a matter of justice. Same with nonhuman animals" 

NZ Vegan Podcast Episode 79 - Sharing advocacy experiences and thoughts and a brief comment on the word "cruelty"

Listen HEREApologies for bad sound quality and no music, it is FREEZING here and I don't have my heater and so I am just in bed rugged up and I am only getting out of bed to get food or cups of tea.  Too cold!!! So I just recorded this on my phone in bed.  Luxury of modern life I am very lucky.Thanks for listening 

NZVP Ep.138 - Abolish Welfarism!

Abolitionist Approach Vegan. Continuing the abolitionist veganism approach Down Under.