ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Keith Akers | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/keithakers/activity/ Activity feed for Keith Akers. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:18:38 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 eef6f4b13f7ac72ecf367b655f9e5ae4 Keith Akers wrote a new post, Basic Income and Veganism https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30627 Tue, 07 Jul 2020 20:31:04 -0700 Systemic, radical changes in the United States are now in the cards. You can feel it in the news and in the streets, even with COVID-19 acting as a damper on protests. But we haven’t had much discussion of what […]

]]> 0 ace79213ce385845163791cb5fae8110 Keith Akers wrote a new post, Veganism as a Response to Limits to Growth https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=30307 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:47:45 -0700 Limits to growth are now here. Our economy used to work just fine, but it hasn’t been working so well for the past few decades. With limits to growth, it is now not going to work at all.

One failure is our way of […]

]]> 0 a7801dd0d4a51e68cf6a632ea272b063 Keith Akers wrote a new post, Shut Down the Slaughterhouses https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29968 Thu, 07 May 2020 16:19:24 -0700 On April 27th, the Denver Post reported  that “5th Greeley JBS worker dies.” JBS is a Colorado slaughterhouse employing 6000 workers. Over 100 JBS employees tested positive for COVID-19, and five have died: four […]

]]> 0 a857fb71d147c0654d697ca42788f106 Keith Akers posted a new activity comment https://animalpeopleforum.org/2020/03/31/this-pandemic-is-about-animals/#comment-966 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:34:54 -0700 The best current theory is that humans contracted COVID-19 from pangolins, not snakes.

In reply to - Keith Akers wrote a new post, This Pandemic is About Animals The current COVID-19 pandemic is a pivotal event, not just for vegans, but for almost everyone on the planet. There’s a lot that we still don’t kno […] ]]> 1be0957ededcfa3fe9c5db10ce862f8c Keith Akers wrote a new post, Was Jesus Killed for Opposing Animal Sacrifice? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29367 Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:03:59 -0700 Just before his death, Jesus went into the temple and disrupted the business supporting the temple operations, by driving out all those who were buying and selling sacrificial animals. It was this act which led to […]

]]> 1 ab991410a47fa9b39ba8d9c1c7b6001f Keith Akers wrote a new post, This Pandemic is About Animals https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29494 Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:42:53 -0700 The current COVID-19 pandemic is a pivotal event, not just for vegans, but for almost everyone on the planet. There’s a lot that we still don’t know. But there can be no doubt that this pandemic is a con […]

]]> 1 1612e4129e9ed30ed92b586f0ae8441b Keith Akers wrote a new post, Is Clean Meat Vegan? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29303 Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:20:00 -0700 By now, many people have heard about “clean meat” — also known as “lab-grown meat,” “cell-based meat,” or “cultured meat,” among other monikers. It’s meat that doesn’t come from slaughtering an animal, but t […]

]]> 0 774a2ad4fb10d33366aaca27a2dab851 Keith Akers wrote a new post, Was Jesus a Vegan? https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=29305 Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:07:29 -0700 The historical Jesus, as I’ve argued elsewhere, was clearly vegetarian. To recap:  (1) The controversy in the early church over vegetarianism shows that the leadership of the early church promoted vegetarianism […]

]]> 1 186d8879df75c75ade01a65004b65862 Keith Akers wrote a new post, The Gap Between Knowing and Believing: Jonathan Safran Foer and Being Not-Quite-Vegan https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=27174 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:54:54 -0700 We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. Jonathan Safran Foer. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.

There is now a growing chorus of well-known popular books on the subject of climate change. […]

]]> 0 fdc86446b6ff0622e6c07ff5da0448e3 Keith Akers wrote a new post, Reforestation is a Solution to Climate Change, But Not Without Veganism https://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=26893 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:42:52 -0700 Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have made a short and excellent YouTube video on forests and climate change. Their thesis: to deal with climate change, we need to eliminate fossil fuels, […]

]]> 0 f528c1a0169b92a7a05796b82d1a0b00 Keith Akers became a registered member https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/24734/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:52:02 -0700 0