![]() He recruited gently and lovingly - but supremely effectively - dozens and dozens of people, including his parents, to the practice of not eating animals, and it will be hard to find anyone his age who has turned more carnivores into vegans than him. Spending his summers voraciously reading and soaking up all the wisdom to be had at his eclectic self-procured internships at the CATO Institute with Doug Bandow, J Street, the Institute for Policy Studies, ARC of Montgomery, Compassion Over Killing, and for Professor Frank Couvares, Tommy became an anti-war activist, a badass autodidact moral philosopher and progressive humanist libertarian, and a passionate vegan who composed imperishable, knock-your-socks-off poetry linking systematic animal cruelty and exploitation to militarism and war culture. “At Amherst College, he majored in history, helped lead the Amherst Political Union, intellectually discredited the egregious Dinesh D’Souza who turned to pathetic insults when Tommy destroyed his argument from the audience with a simple question (even before D’Souza was soon to be convicted of federal campaign finance crimes), won the Kellogg Prize, created and performed one-act plays with his social dorm mates, and wrote a compelling senior thesis on the intellectual history of the animal rights movement. He began to pen these extraordinary essays and articles that now add up to well over 100 as well as write plays and extremely long polemical poems, which he eagerly performed for audiences astounded by his precocious moral vision, utter authenticity of emotion, and beauty of expression. He ordered and devoured books on the Civil War and Maryland’s history in it, World War II and resistance to Nazism, Jewish history, libertarianism, moral philosophy, the history of the Middle East conflict, peace movements, anything by Gar Alperovitz on the decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and a nything by Peter Singer on animal rights. A Bar Mitzvah from Temple Sinai, he taught a Sunday School with Heather Levy for two years at Temple Emmanuel, often substituting his social-struggle analysis of the Exodus story for teachings on the Hebrew alphabet. “Above all, he began to follow his own piercing moral and intellectual insights looking for answers to problems of injustice, poverty and war. Rep Jamie Raskin's son lost his life to suicide and wrote this note. Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes Not by Bread Alone by Vihljalmur Stefansson The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith ![]() Vegetarianism Explained: Making an Informed Decision by Natasha Campbell-McBride ![]() One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts (2016) Use np.reddit when crossposting from vegan subreddits Are you an ex-vegan or thinking of becoming one? Feel free to tell us your story or ask for advice/tips.
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