About

Vegan Porn has been many things to many people since it launched on May 13, 2001 (yes, you may send us birthday cards): a snarky news site, the internet’s weirdest vegan outreach experiment (for one glorious afternoon, we were indeed the number one Google result for “porn,”) a forum, an incubator for other projects like our vegan wine guide and online cooking show, and now “just a blog.”

Well, not just a blog.  As part of the Better Network of websites, today VP focuses on the weird and obscure stories that we can all have a laugh about together.  Humour is an often overlooked tool in the activist’s tool set, but it might be one of the most important.  As we said in an interview for Mark Hawthorne’s excellent guide to activism Striking at the Roots:

“I need the humor to keep sane,” says Jason Doucette, creator of the Vegan Porn blog site. “I doubt very much that I’d still be maintaining Vegan Porn if I didn’t throw some jokes in the mix. The news is often depressing and infuriating, and while writing about it can be a means of venting and possibly calling others to action, I’m also spreading that depression and anger to my readers, which could lead to multiplying the burnout. I use humor to blunt the force of the blow when things get bad, while hopefully still respecting the seriousness of the issues. Also, a significant portion of visitors to the site aren’t vegan, and the humor can catch people off guard if they’ve made the ‘vegans equals angry’ association in their mind and could lead some to re-think their position on vegans and veganism.”

So no, no porn here.  That would spoil the joke.