May 31
As you know, I support Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, which is the only abolitionist, vegan (which is redundant, unlike vegan, abolitionist, which is not redundant) farmed animal sanctuary in the country. I was steered to Animal Place as another possible focus…
May 30
This weekend’s Palm Beach Post featured an article by Craig Dolch entitled, “Kennel Operator Enjoys Runaway Success” and glorifies the sport as a business, not revealing one negative aspect of it and even brushing over a potential negative and turning…
May 29
Today is Gary Francione’s birthday, and to express my gratitude for all he has done, I will match, dollar-for-dollar, the first $1,000 in cash donations to Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary in his name.* Peaceful Prairie is the only abolitionist farmed animal…
May 28
Food writer Elissa Altman’s “The Tortured Omnivore” nails it when she writes: I will freely admit to being sort of a Ted Haggard-like pathetic food-lover, the kind that can talk the talk but just can’t walk the walk – the…
May 27
I haven’t been this disgusted with the behavior of an adult who is supposed to care for and educate our nation’s children since science teacher Bob Pearson supervised his students raising pigs for slaughter to pay for their senior trip….
May 26
Dana Herbert, whose fascinating blog is a must-read, apprised me of “Pigs as ‘Patients’ Draws Protest,” which describes a protest at Hartford Hospital, where surgical trainees pay $1,500 to repair stab wounds in/on pigs. The pigs are anesthetized and stabbed…
May 25
When I see a horse wearing some ridiculous retro get-up, tied to a carriage, in the middle of noisy traffic that’s full of exhaust, negotiating his way through the mayhem on pavement, “romantic” is not the word that comes to…
May 24
Inevitably, when I write about my (transitioning-to-vegan) Republican husband or my girlfriend who wears fur, I get e-mails asking me how I could have married a meat-eater and why I would be friends with a fur-wearer. (She’s a Republican, too….
May 23
This isn’t going to win me any popularity contests, but I feel terrible for Nina Planck. I’ll wait for you to stop screaming, or get up from the floor, or otherwise recover. Imagine you tell the world, in writing, about…
May 22
I’m dreadfully sorry for disabling the comments for the recent handful of posts. I didn’t do it intentionally and I’m not even sure how it happened. I’m grateful for the flurry of e-mails I received this afternoon to alert me….
Dr. John McDougall’s website has responses that are succinct, informative and useful for vegans in their interactions with people of Planck’s ilk, whose misinformation campaigns do a disservice not just to us, but to people who are considering switching to…
In the event that you slept all day yesterday or were for other reasons otherwise unable to turn your computer on or read THE paper (The New York Times), you might have missed Nina Planck’s “Death by Veganism.” Yesterday, I…
May 22
Check out this press release. I’ll wait. Please tell The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences that if the film in question glorifies the Iditarod, it’s a shame that it was nominated, and it definitely shouldn’t win an award….
May 21
I need your help. Because I don’t have children and my Ph.D. is in Applied Linguistics, not nutrition, a letter from me responding to Nina Planck’s opinion piece, “Death by Veganism,” in today’s New York Times won’t pack as much…
I’ve received dozens of e-mails regarding the change in the process to comment on Animal Person, and rather than responding individually (shocking to some, I do have a life), here’s my reasoning. It was a sad day last week when…
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