Jun 15
Last September, I wrote about the “Blood and Guts” course pages on the website of the Governor’s School, a school for gifted students at Lynchburg College in Virginia. They showed the children being inappropriate, and posing in some rather disturbing…
Now’s your chance, people. Today’s New York Times gives us “Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet.” Though writer Larry Magid doesn’t address the demonizing of the hog, this is a great time for you to…
The next time someone asks you what’s so bad about backyard breeding, show them this. My mother got her cats from North Shore Animal League, which does amazing work. The cats, whom she named Isadore Lovey and Baby Girl Viva…
Jun 13
Greyhounds in Massachusetts need your help–no matter where you reside. As you may know the greyhound racing industry isn’t exactly thriving, and to prop it up, many local governments campaign to add slot machines and other forms of gambling. It’s…
Jun 12
In “As Breeders Test DNA, Dogs Become Guinea Pigs,” by Amy Harmon in the Science section of today’s New York Times, one sentence says it all for me: Free of most of the ethical concerns — and practical difficulties —…
Jun 12
Christopher Barden, my not-so-evil twin whose life path is startlingly like mine, sent me his letter to the Ad Council to protest the Energy Hog Campaign. Naturally this type of advertisement makes me cringe, and I’ll write a letter of…
If you’re still eating fish, or you’ve convinced yourself that shrimp is the way to go because you’ve never seen one with his head intact, check out Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s (the founder of Compassionate Cooks and author of The Joy of…
Jun 10
I was never much of a bumpersticker gal, though I loved “Mean People Suck” when I first saw it. There were some jolly Grateful Dead dancing bears that I liked for a nanosecond, but not enough to plaster my car…
Jun 9
Thursday’s Rare Glimpse Inside a “Free-Range” Egg Facility, which essentially details the lack of difference between two free-range (including one organic) egg facilities and factory farms, brought me several e-mails thanking me for posting it. Prego. But it also brought…
Jun 8
I’m hoping that Virginia Phillips’ ‘Chicken Killing Day’ is one of those articles that when you wrote it you thought it was fine, but when you read it, published on the page, you’re horrified. Let’s deconstruct: Phillips, a writer and…
Jun 7
I don’t eat eggs because I don’t eat animals, no matter how they’re treated. But for those of you who still eat eggs and do so only if they are say “free-range” and/or “cage-free,” you should read Jewel Johnson’s “A…
Jun 6
At Time To Go Veggie, you can calculate the number of animals you can save in your lifetime, learn about all of the reasons a vegetarian diet is better for you and the entire planet, and you can read the…
Jun 5
DOG CATCHER, by Erick R. Sysak, is a “gritty Southern noir of Central Florida and greyhound racing.” And though the characters and the plot may be fictional, the premise is not. Greyhound racing is a secretive, sordid business, and the…
Jun 4
Remember that 11-year old who shot and killed the thousand-pound pig about a week ago? Each time I saw a news segment about it, with the anchorperson all congratulatory, I had one thought: child abuse. In order for the prepubescent…
Jun 3
In Chapter 6 of THE GOD DELUSION, entitled, “The Roots of Morality: Why Are We Good?”, Richard Dawkins provides us with “four good Darwinian reasons for individuals to be altruistic, generous or ‘moral’ towards each other” (219). Because they’re Darwinian…
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