Aragorn Eloff's Page

I found this great piece online the other day and thought it spoke volumes, even though it was written 40 years ago.

I edited it a bit to make it more contemporary...here it is.



"When in the course of organic evolution it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members of one generation to the past and inevitably directing them to assume among the species of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws… Continue

What is veganism?

Although almost all of us know what vegetarianism is, veganism remains far less well understood. In fact, the majority of people have trouble distinguishing between these two terms and even some self-professed vegetarians are unsure of the distinction!

Once you start going into more detail, it gets even worse - there are lacto-vegetarians ('lacto' means 'milk', or more generally, 'dairy'), lacto-ovo-vegetarians (ovo means 'eggs'), 'strict' vegetarians, 'pure' vegetaria… Continue

Introduction

Although the warnings of impending environmental catastrophe were hotly contended a few years ago (most tellingly by high-paid corporate lobby groups), few people now deny that many of the essential natural systems that sustain all life on Earth are threatened by human activity.

Among countless other horrors, vast expanses of richly biodiverse Amazon rainforest have been decimated to make way for crops planted for biofuel and livestock feed, use of non-renewable energy reso… Continue