Living Cruelty Free

My name is Emily, and I’m a cruelty-freeist — I’m really opposed to causing needless animal suffering. This blog chronicles my spending a year (and counting!) of buying toiletries made by companies whose final products AND initial ingredients were never, ever tested on animals. Other than that, I’m your regular run of the mill vegetarian trying to go vegan (but I am a strong supporter of humane omnivorism since I used to be a carnivore — I don’t think you’re scum if you eat meat, I just hope you’ll consider switching to not supporting horrific factory farming conditions). I live in the San Francisco bay area, I have a dog I cook food for, and I hope I can help you if you’re thinking of adding more cruelty-freeism to your life!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Milk: It’s Like Heroin

This is an explanation (among other things) of how there is a morphine-like substance in dairy products. Apparently if you take a bunch of people on an average American diet and force them to become vegan for a few weeks, what they really miss is cheese. Not steak, not bacon, not chocolate — cheese. Really.

The best part about this video is that the guy who gives the talk, Dr. Neal Barnard, is hilarious. I wish all scientists with powerpoints were one-sixteenth as funny.

And now I COMPLETELY understand why I’ve been having so much trouble giving up cheese!

ETA: Apparently this video is not working tremendously well — if it is not working on your computer, click here to go to its google video page.

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posted by Emily at 11:41 pm  

7 Comments »

  1. Dairy is just like drugs alright! All the poisons that is in dairy makes it so addicting that’s why people buy it like crazy! I haven’t had dairy for almost seven years now since I’m vegan. Before that I was a lacto veggie for seven years. Dairy is so cruel and unhealthy I wish I gave it up sooner. I am really paying the price for consuming dairy when I was younger since I got severe arthritis from it.

    Comment by Natasha — April 25, 2008 @ 10:40 am

  2. Good for you! I hope I will be able to give up dairy products entirely at some point.

    Comment by Emily — April 25, 2008 @ 10:52 pm

  3. I’m sure you will be able to give up dairy at some point. I know it’s harder but there are great vegan alternatives. I’m like addicted to soy dairy subsitutes. There’s everything from cream cheese, ice cream, yogurt, cheese, sour, cream, etc.

    Comment by Natasha — May 7, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

  4. I just wanted to let you know( in case you don’t know already)if you buy vegan soy products they are not 100% cruelty free . I just found out recently that soy is tested on animals!! I am so sad. :( I’ve been eating soy since I was a kid.

    Comment by Natasha — June 30, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

  5. What? I had NO IDEA soy products were tested on animals. How crazy! All soy products?

    Comment by Emily — June 30, 2008 @ 11:17 pm

  6. Yes all soy products. It’s awful. I would have never guessed this. :(

    Comment by Natasha — July 1, 2008 @ 4:20 am

  7. Hey Emily! I just wanted to let you know that Dr. Barnard is going to be on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday Sept.29! :)

    I’m so excited!

    Comment by Natasha — September 28, 2008 @ 5:06 am

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