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It was such an uncharacteristically warm evening for late October that I arrived at Norfolk and Suffolk Animal Save‘s first ‘Candlelit Vigil’ in only a t-shirt. Most of the usual faces I have come to know well over the past year whilst standing outside slaughterhouses were in attendance. Soft music played from a bluetooth speaker […]

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Yesterday marked the third Canada Goose protest at the UK store in London within their first week of opening. Activists stood outside the doors in the rain for most of the day armed with placards, megaphones and laptops depicting the tortures that animals may endure in order to line and stuff ‘designer’ coats. No doubt […]

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I thought long and hard about it before I went to my very first slaughterhouse vigil, otherwise known as an ‘Animal Save‘. Would it be helpful for animal rights? Would it be detrimental to the animals in the trucks? Would it make my activism better or worse in the future? Would it negatively effect my […]

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In October 2016 Surge hosted the first Official Animal Rights March where 2,500 vegans marched through London demanding an end to all animal oppression. People shouted in unison to beating drums and megaphones, holding signs and coming together to create a spectacle that no one could ignore. Surge now have announced the 2017 Official Animal Rights […]

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On Saturday afternoon, local vegan activists in Norwich began the city’s very first ‘Anonymous for The Voiceless’ demonstration – a ‘direct action’ method of activism inspired by the now widely-established Earthlings Experience in which blank-masked people hold signs and devices showing the documentary Earthlings with the aim that passers-by are then able to make informed consumer choices […]

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You’ve seen on YouTube of what animal go through in slaughterhouses. You’ve had a loved one die from heart disease and you’ve heard that animal agriculture is the leading cause of man made greenhouse gasses. You’re vegan because that’s the least you can do. But you want to do more to help. You want to know […]

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As the old Gandhi quote goes, “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”. And the Animal Agriculture Alliance, are most definitely at the fighting stage. In fact, they’ve been fighting those pesky animal rights activists for the past thirty years. This week the Animal Agriculture Alliance […]

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  An anonymous email sent to mail@anticarnist.com regarding the above image: I know this a bit late but I want to let you know that this [tweet] was the one that made the click in my head. I’m glad I found this image because I’ve been vegan for three days now thanks to this and the […]

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Imagine you are the owner of a small bakery. Every day, you make say, 50 cinnamon raisin bagels, 50 plain bagels and 50 onion bagels. You notice that at the end of most days, there are no cinnamon raisin bagels left. There are around 10 plain bagels left. And around 25 onion bagels left. So […]

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“Daddy, what are they writing?” There was silence as I could tell her father was reading the words written in colourful chalk around the McDonald’s they were just inside of. Messages saying ‘Compassion for all beings’ and ‘if you love animals why eat them?’ inspired an instant defensiveness within him as he raised his cheese burger to […]

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Emily Moran Barwick is an animal-liberation activist, international speaker, artist, writer, and the creator of the YouTube channel and accompanying website Bite Size Vegan, where she provides free, educational videos and resources about veganism – backed by rigorous research. She hopes to provoke an honest examination of our justifications for what we do to animals, beyond […]

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