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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 18m

Your past does not have to decide your future. Even work in animal agriculture can be followed by a different choice. Changing your mind is a strength, especially when compassion leads the way. #animalrights #veganism

A woman with long blond hair and a black shirt holds a yellow handwritten sign reading, “I once worked on a dairy farm. Now I’m vegan. #AnyoneCanGoVegan.” A framed photograph of pebbles hangs behind her. Small “The Vegan Project” branding with green leaves appears at the bottom.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 2h

Cruelty survives when we mistake it for tradition, necessity, or someone else’s problem. A better world begins when we refuse to make excuses for it. #animalrights #fascism

Portrait graphic of silhouetted wildflowers against an orange sunset. White text reads, “We must refuse to accept the culture of cruelty.” Branding above reads “New Thought, New World,” with MichaelCorthell.substack.com below.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 3h

See the individual behind the label. Each of these animals has a life that matters to them, regardless of what humans call their bodies. Choose compassion. Go vegan. #animalrights #veganism

Black portrait meme with a chicken, two piglets, a sheep, and a brown cow arranged in a two-by-two grid. Beneath each, “SEE MEAT” appears in white, with the letters “AT” crossed out in red to leave “SEE ME.” Turquoise “#govegan” hashtags accompany each portrait. Small “The Vegan Project” branding appears below.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 3h

Violence does not become compassion because it happens behind closed doors or arrives neatly packaged. When we can feed ourselves without killing animals, choosing otherwise deserves honest scrutiny. #animalrights #veganism

Portrait meme showing Morrissey looking downward with his hands near his collar. A dark panel reads, “You either approve of violence or you don’t, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.” His name appears in turquoise, with small “The Vegan Project” branding and green leaves below.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 6h

@thevegandispatch.bsky.social Paying someone else to harm an animal does not remove the harm. It only puts distance between our choices and their consequences. #animalrights

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 8h

If the truth is too disturbing to show a child, perhaps the problem is what we do to animals, not who sees it. #animalrights #vegan #plantbased

Portrait meme showing a dark metal barn beneath cloudy skies. Text reads, “If we can’t show a child what happens to farm animals, perhaps what we’re doing to the animals is wrong.” The closing phrase is highlighted in red. Small “The Vegan Project” branding with green leaves appears at the bottom.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 10h

Animal welfare asks how animals may be used. Animal rights asks why they are denied the right to say no. #animalrights

Four-panel cartoon inside a bright laboratory. A woman with black hair in a bun wears a white lab coat over a blue-and-white striped shirt, black pants, and red sneakers. She holds a clipboard with a green checkmark beside a white rabbit sitting freely on an examination table. The woman says, “We follow animal welfare rules.” The rabbit asks, “Do the rules let me say no?” Looking uncomfortable, she answers, “No.” In the final panel, the rabbit faces the reader and says, “Then they protect the test, not me.” “The Vegan’s Voice” appears beneath the panels.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴! If my work speaks to you, 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗼-𝗳𝗶! Your support gives me more time to write and advocate. Thank you for being part of this community! #veganism #animalrights ko-fi.com/michaelscort...

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

𝘐𝘧 𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘭. 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻. Leave animals off the menu and out of the slaughterhouse. #animalrights

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺

“Meat” is a convenient word.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Funny how animals get assigned a job, a production quota, and a retirement date without ever applying. Her life belongs to her, regardless of what we want from her body. #animalrights #sentient

Four-panel cartoon in a farmyard, drawn with textured black lines and muted colors. A woman with black hair in a bun, a blue-and-white striped shirt, black pants, and red sneakers crouches beside a white hen. Holding a clipboard, she says, “Animals are valuable resources.” The hen asks, “What’s my job?” The woman answers, “Producing eggs.” In the final panel, the hen gives her a skeptical look and replies, “Funny. I never applied.” “The Vegan’s Voice” branding appears beneath the panels.

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lanternpm.bsky.social @lanternpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy publication day to Gene Baur’s FARM SANCTUARY: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT✨ This book is both a historical document and a call to action capturing Farm Sanctuary’s heart warming stories, landmark victories, and its vision for a kinder future. #newbook #animalrights #bookcommunity

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A comfortable cage is still a cage. Animals deserve more than gentler use. They deserve lives free from human ownership and control. #animalrights

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If plants feel pain, feeding mountains of them to animals before eating the animals is a remarkably strange rescue plan.

Four-panel cartoon beside a sunny cornfield and wooden pasture fence. A woman with black hair in a bun, a blue-and-white striped shirt, black pants, and red sneakers holds a basket filled with corn and leafy plants beside a brown-and-white cow. The woman says, “Plants feel pain too.” The cow asks, “Then why feed so many to animals?” Looking uncertain, the woman replies, “So people can eat the animals.” In the final panel, the cow faces the reader with an unimpressed expression and says, “That’s a strange way to defend plants.” “The Vegan’s Voice” appears beneath the panels.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A child knows to approach a cat with care. Somewhere along the way, we learn to stop offering that care to other animals. #animalrights

In warm sunlight, a young child gently reaches toward a tabby cat. Beside them, a Sadhguru quote reads, “Being human means being capable of looking at every life form with a sense of tenderness.” The Vegan Project appears at the bottom.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Twenty minutes of appetite should never outweigh an entire lifetime of confinement. The meal ends. For the animal, everything ended. #animalrights

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Funny how the dairy industry calls it “natural” when the mother loses her calf and we get the milk. The hen’s body gets the same treatment. Apparently exploitation sounds better when you call it breakfast. #animalrights #veganism

Square meme with a portrait of Natalie Portman against a pink and terracotta background. Her quote about exploiting female animals for eggs and milk appears in bold black text, with “The Vegan Project” at the bottom.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tradition can explain how cruelty survived. It cannot explain why it should continue. Can you? #animalrights

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Welcome to this week’s The Vegan’s Voice Weekly News Digest, my Monday roundup of ten stories from animal advocacy, food, science, business, and the wider systems that shape animals’ lives. #animalrights #plantbased #veganism Please let me know what you think in the comments! 👈🏿

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10 stories shaping the vegan and plant-based world

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

John Lennon’s words ask a simple question: If we can live without eating animals or wearing their bodies, why keep doing it? Compassion can shape what we put on our plates and what we choose to wear. #animalrights

Portrait graphic featuring John Lennon in amber glasses and a denim jacket. Beside him, large text reads, “I don’t think animals were meant to be eaten and worn.” His name appears below the quote, with The Vegan’s Voice branding at the bottom.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our power now reaches across borders, species, and generations. Our empathy needs to reach just as far. Look at the world we have made, then ask who bears the cost of our choices and whose lives we have learned to overlook.

Portrait quote meme showing a person seated beside a dog and cat, looking toward Earth at sunrise. Large white text warns that empathy has lagged behind human power. Branding at the bottom reads “New Thought, New World” and “MichaelCorthell.substack.com.”

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An animal does not become meaningful when humans find a use for her. She was already living a life that mattered. #animalrights #veganism

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can name the threats to human survival, yet still treat cooperation as weakness and other lives as expendable. Disclosure Day asks whether empathy can catch up with our power before that failure becomes irreversible. #animalrights #humanrights #aliens #UAP

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Price A barcode makes a product easy to count, price, and sell. It cannot tell you whose life was reduced to inventory. #animalrights #veganism

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Plants feel pain,” you say? Then why feed so many of them to animals who actually can suffer, only to eat the animals too? That’s a strange way to minimize harm. #plantbased

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When the meat industry writes the factory farm standards, passing inspection may say more about the standards than the welfare. #animalrights #factoryfarms

Four-panel cartoon inside a clean industrial pig barn with concrete floors, metal railings, feeding troughs, and overhead lights. A woman with black hair in a bun, a blue-and-white striped shirt, black pants, and red sneakers holds a clipboard beside a pink pig. She says, “Everything meets industry standards.” The pig asks, “Who wrote them?” Looking uncomfortable, the woman answers, “The industry.” In the final panel, the pig faces the reader with a skeptical expression and says, “How convenient for the industry.” “The Vegan’s Voice” appears beneath the panels.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“I could never kill an animal myself.” People say this at dinner, sometimes with an animal on the plate. They usually mean that they do not want to see a creature frightened, hurt, or killed. #animalrights

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If You Wouldn’t Watch It Happen, Why Is It Fine to Buy It?

The distance between an animal and a package makes an ethical choice feel like an ordinary purchase

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Compassion can be joyful, colorful, and delicious. Every plant-based meal lets animals keep the lives that already belong to them. #animalrights #veganism #plantbased

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Humans once declared that fish could not feel pain. Apparently, asking the fish would have compromised the study. #animalrights

Four-panel cartoon beside a bright, peaceful pond. A woman with black hair in a bun, a blue-and-white striped shirt, black pants, and red sneakers sits on a wooden dock beside a large spotted fish rising from the water. She says, “People say fish don’t feel pain.” The fish asks, “Did a fish say that?” The woman replies, “No. People did.” In the final panel, the fish looks directly at the reader with a deeply skeptical expression and says, “Very peer-reviewed.” “The Vegan’s Voice” appears beneath the panels.

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The Vegan's Voice | Michael Corthell @thevegansvoice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A good plant-based meal does more than give someone another option. It makes a compassionate choice easy, inviting, and delicious. #panbased #veganism

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A Better Choice on the Menu

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