The awakening of my conscience began long before I announced to my family one Sunday morning in 1976, shortly after my 52nd birthday, that henceforth I would eat no animal's flesh. That statement took only a moment to make, but it represented the confluence of feelings, perceptions and understandings that began in my childhood and grew and ripened with my years and my experience. All it tells is facts and figures. Welcome to my site. The term philosophy is often used to mean a set of basic values and attitudes toward life, nature and society.
Vegans see life as a phenomenon to be treasured, revered and respected.
Vegans see themselves as a part of the natural world, rather than its owners or its masters. Veganism recognizes no expendable or superfluous species that humans are free to hurt or destroy. Species of life-forms need not justify their existence, nor plead for protection from extinction on the grounds of their potential usefulness as food or medicine for humans. Veganism acknowledges the intrinsic legitimacy of all life. It rejects any hierarchy of acceptable suffering among sentient creatures.