I just don't really care...

I was talking the other day with someone I'd just met over some dinner, and they asked me why I lived without money, only ate organic, local vegan food and didn't use fossil fuels and so on.

So I spoke about the philosophy behind what I do and the reasons I live this way – the environmental destruction, the suffering to human and non-human animals, the agendas behind the wars we wage, the social and cultural effects of our purchases on the people we can't see – I think the poor guy regretted asking.

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12 ways to make the world an even better place...

Every now and again someone does something extraordinarily remarkable to make the world an even better place. Like Rosa Parks refusing to get up off her seat. Or Gandhi refusing to eat until both Muslims and Hindus stopped taking an eye for an eye. Like any one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches, knowing assassination was always lurking around the corner. Or that little guy in Tiananmen Square, who stiffened the backs of the world when he refused to move out of the way for the military tanks.

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Am I a thief?

Murder, violence and theft – three acts generally accepted by modern society as unacceptable behaviour, proven by the amounts of legislation we've devised to 'punish' those who commit them. How many of us have ever questioned what these three terms really mean though? So much of what constitutes our moral infrastructure, within which we consciously and subconsciously make both mundane and important decisions, comes from the melting pot of the cultures we live in, our religions, the media, our peers and other authoritative figures. It is these bodies, amongst others, which define the parameters to what words such as murder, violence and theft mean to the masses of the human population.

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The real reason I've stopped going to Tesco...

I have a confession to make to you all; one that, I am sorry, may shock some of you. I am no longer a fan of Tesco. For a number of years I loved them - the money I saved by going there kept me in no end of Ralph Lauren polo-shirts and Calvin Klein pants, without which I am sure I'd still be unkissed to this day.

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