Ag-gag laws - laws that criminalize exposing the truth about animal agribusiness - are the legal manifestation of the collective consciousness of the holocaust denier. Many people who pay for someone else to murder our non-human friends have the same internal psychological laws that similarly criminalize the truth, and will similarly punish those who try to expose their minds to it. When they tell a vegan "I don't want to know," or "I don't want to see that," the psychic defe

Holiday movies. I love them. I crave images and stories of the magic of the season, even though I am not a religious person (in the most widely accepted definition of such, anyway). I also love great animation in general. I love Pixar. I love Disney. I love Avatar. And I love that so many of these companies create media which, as Colleen Patrick-Goudreau points out in her brilliant book The Joyful Vegan, foster the ideas of loving, or at least being kind to, non-human animals