Watch:

Gary Yourofsky Speech and Q&A

- Probably the most important piece of media vegans have in their arsenal. It covers pretty much everything in good detail; animal welfare, health, the environment, etc… Read about Gary Yourofsky here.

Earthlings

- A nauseating experience. Showcases the immense cruelty done by man unto animals. It is done in a few segments that cover meat, entertainment, pets, testing and clothing.

Carnism: The Psychology of Eating Meat

- A very challenging and insightful presentation by Melanie Joy exploring the ‘gap in conciousness’ that allows the cognitive dissonance between moral values and the treatment of non-human animals. It explains how eating flesh has as much of a belief system behind it as not eating flesh does.

Food Inc.

- A look into how the government have systematically gained control over everything you eat and completely altered the face of agriculture to suit their needs; how they have made food incredibly unhealthy… And put corn in everything… This is an overall view of food production and there are some parts that try to glorify ‘the family farm’ and their methods of so-called ‘humane slaughter’ and ‘ethical’ practices. You’re all smart enough to know that this is still a load of bollocks, but I wanted to make it clear that I do not condone the use of animals in any capacity.

Forks Over Knives

- An in depth look at the effects of eating animal based products. Drawing links, with plenty of evidence, to animal produce causing cancers, heart diseases and bone diseases amongst others. Shows how cutting out animal produce can reverse certain diseases. Only mentions anything ethical very briefly.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

- The story of the activities of the Earth Liberation Front, mainly around the Pacific North West  in the late 90’s. Mostly focussed around Daniel McGowan. The link provides more in depth synopsis. I found this to be a very distressing watch.

Chris DeRose Speech on Animal Liberation

- A very heart-felt and inspiring speech given by Chris DeRose, who has been active on the AR scene for 35 years and founded Last Chance for Animals. The speech covers a lot of things from legal standings, liberation methods, general ethos of the movement, how to ‘be smart’ when engaging in actions and insightful personal exploits.

Vanishing of the Bees

- A decent documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder killing off bee populations the world over due to how thoroughly shit our agriculture methods are. I’m not too fond of the perspective this is told from but the film, overall, is important because not many people realise how important bees are.

Oppress THIS! (Shell123ey’s YouTube Channel)

- Generally well informed and well presented arguments tackling a variety of vegan related things.

Read:

Vegan Freak

- A good guide for new vegans and a pretty good read for established vegans.

Thanking the Monkey

- I have not read most of this one, but it comes highly recommended and is good thus far. Karen Dawn is great, too :D.

Humane Myth.org

- A website dedicated to the deconstruction of the myth of ‘humane’ animal produce. Because, as all sensible people know: humane exploitation, humane oppression and humane slaughter cannot exist in a real, logical world.

Because We Must

- An organization to end all forms of oppression: animal, earth and human. Watch/read the mission statement, then go read the rest of the site.

Green is The New Red

- A blog regarding how animal rights and environmental activists are branded as ‘terrorists’ and how the fear of ‘terrorism’ is being used to manipulate society.

Michael Bluejay.com/veg/

- A website dealing with various myths about vegetarians/vegans, offering in depth articles. An article of particular interest is how we are naturally herbivores (it is the most concise article of it’s type I have come across).

Carnism.com

- An detailed explanation of how eating meat is as much a choice/ideology as vegetarian and veganism. Comes with a video at the end of the article. Happy days!

Tommyxvx has written plenty of articles of interest. Follow this link for his list of recommended reading.