The Grumpy Prince of Vegan Darkness Loitering Outside Monk's House.Without claiming any pretence of expertise in Virginia Woolf, the Grumpy Vegan admits to reading her fiction, non-fiction, diaries and letters with great pleasure. Her writing is without question some of the best to read anywhere. Her life was also fascinating. (And we won’t go into that awful book and film, The Hours, which plagiarised her writing style and her life.) Recently, when we explored Beachy Head we detoured to Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home, Monk’s House, in Rodmell, East Sussex.
To stand on such sacred ground was humbling. And to think that it will be open to the public soon takes one’s breath away.
Kim Stallwood is an independent scholar and author on animal rights. His forthcoming book, Animal Dharma, explores what it means to care deeply about animals. Starting in 1976, he has held leadership positions with some of the world’s foremost organisations in the UK and US, including CIWF, BUAV, PETA, The Animals’ Agenda, Animals and Society Institute and Minding Animals International. A vegetarian since 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. A vegan since 1976. His evil twin is the Grumpy Vegan.
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Kim Stallwood's forthcoming book explores what it means to care deeply about animals and discovers how we can live peacefully with ourselves and others by proposing four key values: truth, compassion, nonviolence and interbeing.
