Animal Welfare

Matthew Williamson's writings on animal welfare are scattered throughout his archive, but a thread of concern for the treatment of animals can be seen in posts such as It's Simple Really, Animals Are Not Food (2008) and Buddhist Vegetarian Reasons... (2010). In these posts, he expresses a desire to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle and highlights the harm done to sentient beings. The theme is also present in more narrative posts, like Atalanta's Quest, Part Two (2008), where animals are featured as characters, and Sri Garuda and the Tigress (2012), which suggests a reverence for animals. The evolution of this thread can be seen in the shift from fictional representations of animals to more direct discussions of animal welfare, as in Buddhist Vegetarian Reasons... (2010).