The Veganica Blog
Thoughts and insights on veganism, creativity, evolution and activism. Documentary photography of the vegan movement from 1996 until the present. Creative writing and photography by Derek Goodwin.
A photo essay on how I connected with the animals and caretakers at Luvin Arms Sanctuary in Erie, Colorado. Meet cows, chickens, goats, horses and sheep at the sanctuary, along with the cutest-ever calf named Marley.
The story behind my photoshoot for VegNews with vegan blogger Jenné Claiborne, which entailed dismantling a refrigerator to get the perfect portrait for the "What's in Your Fridge?" feature.
Photographs of two vegan events I recently shot for Peta - the opening of the Brave Gentleman in Brooklyn and the departure of the Lettuce Ladies from JFK Airport to Russia!
Jenny Brown and Doug Abel are the founders of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, and were married on the property in 2004 before it opened to the public. These photos are a walk down memory lane.
Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan, of the Our Hen House podcast, interviewed Derek Goodwin at the 2013 Farm Sanctuary Hoe Down. Topics are Vegan Radio, Vegan Bus, Yoga, and his Farm Animal Photography. This is the transcript of the interview, with links to the podcast episode.
Photographs of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food "Art with a Purpose" fundraiser at the Rush Art Gallery, and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society "Waves of Change" fundraiser two blocks away at the Hasted Kraeutler Gallery. My farm animal photos were auctioned at both.
Featuring an interview from the 2013 Vegan Spirituality Retreat in Philadelphia, where Derek Pashupa Goodwin was the featured yoga teacher
My exhibit of sanctuary farm animal portraits at Jivamuktea Café in Union Square NYC. Including photographs from Farm Sanctuary and Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.
Why we should consider (and be considerate to) cows on Christmas. And some thoughts on sex.
How to view Yoga Sutra I:33 through the lens of veganism: “To preserve the innate serenity of the mind, one should be happy for those who are happy, compassionate for those who are suffering, delighted for those who are virtuous, and indifferent towards the wicked.”
Photos from Robyn and Bryan’s vegan wedding at the ReBar in Brooklyn NY
This week 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found dead in Louisiana. Are mass animal die-offs tied to the Earth's sixth global mass extinction event, which we are experiencing now? What can we do to stop it?
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, President Barack Obama brought his nine-year-old daughter Sasha to swim in the gulf waters for a photo op. Is the Oil industry so powerful it can ask the most powerful man in the world to put his child in harm’s way?
In the midst of the disastrous oil spill caused by BP Oil and the Deepwater Horizon, we take a moment to reflect on the true cost of fossil fuels and unchecked corporate power.
An article written for the Vegan Examiner of New Orleans column, calling for a compassionate yet strong and courageous form of activism on behalf of farmed animals. Inspired by the non-violence of Gandhi, and the Buddhist philosophy known as Engaged Buddhism.
A vegan philosophy of zombies, wrapped in a movie review of Zombieland (starring vegan Woody Harrelson), illustrated with photographs from the 2009 Zombie Pub Crawl in Northampton, MA, with a side of vegan Twinkies.
Derek Goodwin receives the “Good Egg” award from Woodstock Farm Sanctuary
Questions and selected answers from an interview I did with Tom Epler for his New Vegan Age blog in 2017. Also announcing my Warrior One Podcast!