Jul 31
Ever since that post about my understanding that being a Libertarian is at odds with Animal Rights, I’ve been obsessed with getting to the bottom of it. After all, if someone is “Known as a libertarian, environmentalist, animal-rights activist and…
In “Officials Have Learned to Evacuate Fido, Too” (AP, 7/30/06) Brian Skoloff reports that The Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act has passed the House and is before a Senate committee. “It would require local governments to prepare to evacuate…
When you live in Florida, which boasts (?) the highest number of Greyhound race tracks and breeders in the world, you get to know a little something about dog racing. If you want the whole story, go to Grey2K USA,…
Remember my neighbor with the purebred Lab puppy who looked at me like I was nuts when I asked him if the dog was a rescue (if not, read the post here)? That was the first time I raised the…
Jul 28
ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, by Temple Grandin is not an easy read. And her website is even more difficult, but it’s all necessary. Dr. Grandin is a specialist in “Livestock Behaviour, Design…
Jul 28
DOGS OF DREAMTIME: A Story About Second Chances and the Power of Love, by Karen Shanley, is a book I’d highly recommend for Dog People. Notice how I didn’t say Animal People. For anyone who is connected to their dog…
Jul 28
I’d love to say the animal rights trio that was jailed was caught attempting to liberate heroin-addicted primates held captive in a study on heroin withdrawal (not that I’m an ALF member, see here). But alas, these three were jailed…
A while back, I wondered if my rescue racer Greyhounds, Violet Rays and Charles Hobson Booger, III should be vegetarians (click here to open the original post). I opted to do the responsible thing and, rather than make the decision…
I’ll write a real post later, but I did read some amazing interviews with Peter Singer that I wanted to pass along. Peter Singer is known to most as the author ANIMAL LIBERATION: A NEW ETHICS FOR OUR TREATMENT OF…
Jul 26
It was a character in Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story, “The Letter Writer,” not the author himself, who said, “In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.” Nevertheless, Singer was…
In “Animal rights protest shuts restaurant” (Reuters, 07/19/06), we discover that the Chinese eat cats and dogs. No, wait, we already knew that. Okay, here’s what we discover: there was a protest outside a restaurant–the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant (you…
You may recall a post earlier in the month, called “Catching Alligator Feeders, Killing Alligators,” about the Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s sting to catch alligator feeders, punish them, and then kill the alligators. In a surreal twist, as…
J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker (twice), doesn’t eat meat. That’s a fact. And he wrote Elizabeth Costello (here’s an excerpt), which garnered wildly-disparate reviews that reached no consensus. There are oodles of debates…
Jul 22
I was really hoping to write more about PLEASURABLE KINGDOM, my new favorite book (see yesterday’s post), but the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources hijacked my original idea when they killed a bear. “Bear Killed After Biting Boy Scout” (AP),…
PLEASURABLE KINGDOM is my new favorite book. Dr. Balcombe presents experimental and anecdotal evidence of how the nonhuman animal world experiences pleasure. The Gray Matter, which I have to mention because that’s what I do, is, well, let’s use the…
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