Hi fellow vegans!

I’m super excited to share that I get to interview Dr. Crystal Heath, DVM, and wanted to see if any vegan redditors had any questions they would like to submit for me to ask her. If you’re not familiar with her work… well… you know it has to be good when the Animal Agriculture Alliance runs a targeted smear campaign against her - which they did. You can read about it here, https://theintercept.com/2020/10/10/new-documents-reveal-how-the-animal-agriculture-industry-surveils-and-punishes-critics/

The TL;DR is BigAg reacted to Heath’s very above-board requests to watch her colleagues at work in intensive farming, or at least do zoom interviews with them, by painting her as a dangerous extremist, making wanted posters with her face, and posting in Facebook groups that they should block her. You know, a chill and normal reaction from people who definitely have the moral high ground and nothing to fear 🙄

Dr. Heath is on the executive board of Our Honor (www.ourhonor.org), an organization lending support for compassionate veterinarians in a climate that sometimes strangely punishes vets for caring about animals, if it’s the “wrong” type of animal to care about. One of their initiatives is Vets Against VSD+ which is a group of veterinarians fighting against the AVMA endorsement of ventilation shutdown + heating as an “acceptable” (🤮) way of “depopulating” potentially infected farmed animals en masse https://www.vavsd.org

Her work standing against VSD+ is how this interview came to be - I discussed this work in my report on Peter Singer’s “Consider the Turkey” (you can find that video here if you’re interested, this channel is also where the interview will be posted! https://youtu.be/jBS_7ppHMNo ) I reached out to her and she kindly agreed to chat with me about her activism.

I’m excited to have this opportunity and wanted to see if there were any burning questions members of our community had on the subject of veterinary consciences, intensive farming, activism, zoonotic pandemics (she has some fantastic and heartbreaking Twitter threads involving the sick & dying farmed animals she can see just from the street) or anything else of that nature.

If you have a specific question that you would like your name or Reddit username attributed to, happy to do so.

Hope her work is as inspiring to others as it is to me! ❤️

Maggie

I’m trying to find any vegan/animal rights groups or organizations in Israel that are intersectional leftists, but I’m coming up short. Even something quite small would be fine (like a discord server, etc.).

I am slowly committing to vegetarianism and eventually will be giving up dairy too (so I am new to veganism)

I have heard a lot about how bugs are super healthy because they are rich in protein. And while I do find the idea of eating them disgusting, it's not really for moral reasons. At the same time, I cannot deny that they feel more conscious than a plant or a mushroom.

I do not think there's necessarily a right answer but I am curious what you guys think about the morality of cultivating and consuming bugs.

I remember reading somewhere that humans have been selected for domestication over the past thousands of years of state society. I don't know how true that really is. How did you become an anarchist? What made you different?