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About Me

An Animal-Friendly Life was founded in 2005 to help compassionate people stay abreast of and act on current events and trends affecting both domesticated and wild animals. Located at ananimalfriendlylife.com , the site is devoted to raising awareness of animal issues, drawing the connections behind all animal suffering, to become aware of a non-violent lifestyle, and inspiring readers to do something about it. You can find another profile for AAFL at CrueltyFree.com , too.
The goal of An Animal-Friendly Life is ultimately to contextualize the suffering and exploitation of animals caused by humans across a broad spectrum, and to advocate everyday practices that reduce and eliminate that exploitation, beginning with the elimination of animal products from one's diet and wardrobe.
AAFL believes that all creatures have an inherent right to live in harmony with their nature on a healthy planet, free from human interference.
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My Interests

Activism, vegan food (esp. dessert), the outdoors, reading, writing

I'd like to meet:

Animal-friendly people, businesses, and non-profits!

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Music:

Rise Against, System of a Down, NIN, AFI, NoFX, Rage Against the Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Moby, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, Bright Eyes, Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Sarah McLachlan, Coldplay, Bonnie Raitt, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Boston, John Coltrane, Beirut, The Beastie Boys, and more.

Movies:

Who Killed The Electric Car?, An Inconvenient Truth, An Unreasonable Man, Peaceable Kingdom, The Witness, The Corporation, McLibel, Earthlings, Meet Your Meat, Babe, Chicken Run, Finding Nemo, The Matrix, Terminator, Terminator 2, Fight Club, Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, A Clockwork Orange

Television:

Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, 30 Days, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report.

Books:

Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, Becoming Vegan, The Joy of Vegan Baking, Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, Deep Vegetarianism, How it all Vegan!, Vive le Vegan!, Vegan with a Vengeance, Veganomicon, The Native Foods Restaurant Cookbook, Eat Drink & Be Vegan, Mad Cowboy, The Vegetarian Child: A Complete Guide for Parents, Animal Rights, Human Wrongs: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Vegan Planet, Slaughterhouse, An Unnatural Order, Rain Without Thunder, Animals Property and the Law, Lullaby

Heroes:

Mohandas K. Gandhi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., John Robbins, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Lyman, Rachel Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ben Franklin, Stella McCartney, Dennis Kucinich, Clint Eastwood, and all vegans and animal activists that do the right thing!

My Blog

Happy meat on cover of this months "Good"

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)So, the magazine is called Good, but the whole thing smells bad to me. I saw this cover at the checkout stand while at Whole Foods (fine purveyors of happ...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:07:00 PST

Totally Not Vegan totally no longer with us

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)For reasons having absolutely nothing to do with AAFL, Totally Not Vegan has gone dark. MySpace, you suck, so I am not going to make the effort to go back...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:04:00 PST

Vegan strip club perpetuates objectifying mindset

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)I was going to stay out of this one (you may have seen this already, since it is nearly 10 days old, and has garnered national attention), but too many ot...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:08:00 PST

USA Today: No humane meat"

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)I had a letter published by USA Today, which the editors called No 'humane meat'. It was written in response to another reader letter, In defense of anima...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:09:00 PST

PDX Redux

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)Taking in the sights in downtown Portland, OR.I've been to Portland three times now to vacation in that vegan-friendly town with a dozen-plus friends of m...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:17:00 PST

Yes, dairy cows are slaughtered for their meat

(originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)The main thing I find shocking about this Washington Post article on cruelty at a California slaughterhouse is that some people still think cows are not h...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:02:00 PST

Review: Striking at the Roots

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activismby Mark HawthorneO Books, $19.95 (Jan. 25, 2008)282 pagesI recently started a three-part column...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:00:00 PST

Totally Not Vegan, 60

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:39:00 PST

Review: Making a Killing

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rightsby Bob TorresAK Press, $17.95153 pagesA lot of animal activists like to say they want to address t...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:39:00 PST

Busy 2008 so far, but always time for dinner!

(Originally posted at An Animal-Friendly Life)I've been spread thinner than a layer of Vegenaise lately, which explains the pitiful lack of posts in recent days. Among all the proposals I am trying to...
Posted by An Animal-Friendly Life on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:56:00 PST