This paper explores Donna Haraway’s approach to ‘the political’ in her book When Species Meet. The proposes an alternative previous readings of work on food, eating and animals, which have interpreted argument as a stance against veganism or depoliticised animal exploitation. Drawing Margret Grebowicz Helen Merrick’s analysis relation political theory Chantal Mouffe&rsqu...

Some animal defenders are committed to complete abstinence from products. However the strongest arguments for adopting veganism only seem require that one avoid using products, where use or procurement of these products will harm sentient animals. As such, there is seemingly a gap between our intuition and argument. In this article I attempt defend more comprehensive claim we have moral reason ...

While veganism has been growing and receiving increasing attention, there is a gap on how factors such as health environmental beliefs anti-speciesism values, that create attitude towards their diets, influence vegan behaviour. Furthermore, the role of social stigma experienced by vegans not examined within this context. Building value-attitude-behaviour model, present study addresses conceptua...

Adherence to a vegetarian diet has been hypothesized to be a factor in the onset and maintenance of disordered eating behavior; however, evidence to support this assumption has been largely mixed. The two studies presented here sought to address the causes of inconsistent findings in previous research, including: small samples of true vegetarians, lack of appropriate operational definitions of ...