Aug 17
I’m doing an informal survey regarding leaflets, pamphlets, and the like. I know there is ambivalence about what is available, and I was wondering if an abolitionist pamphlet would appeal to anyone. (And after I do this, I’m retiring The…
Instead of eating lunch (at 11am, as I get up very, very early) at my desk or while doing the laundry yesterday, I turned on the television and “The View” was on. Barbara Walters tries to broach the topic of:…
Aug 15
While in Princeton over the weekend I was accused of favoring Charles in my blog. I have a gazillion photos of Violet to choose from, but not with my new camera, though, so they don’t count. Once again, here’s Charles….
Aug 14
First off, there will be an Animal Person Minute tomorrow, as I just returned home from Princeton and cannot locate some important items without which I cannot download my terrible photos. I achieved my goal of refraining from using The…
Aug 13
I’ve been in Princeton since Friday, visiting my three god children (I’m their legal guardian too, which is kind of scary for both them and me). The oldest, Gillian (age 9), is showing and jumping horses, and yesterday was her…
Aug 12
As promised, here’s the official Animal Person deconstruction of “Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye,” by Allen Salkin in the Fashion & Style section of yesterday’s New York Times: The first woman mentioned was a vegetarian in her teens but…
Aug 11
You have got to read “Be Yourselves, Girls, Order the Rib-Eye,” by Allen Salkin in the Fashion & Style section of today’s New York Times. I’ll deconstruct it tonight or for tomorrow, as I’m on my way out for the…
Aug 11
“The False Choice of Pacifism” is another thought-provoking section in Sam Harris’ The End of Faith (this is the last time I’ll be writing about the book, I promise). He calls pacifism “flagrantly immoral” (199) and notes that the problem…
Aug 10
Yesterday, Gail Collins’ opinion piece in the New York Times called “An Ape Types in Iowa” scared me. She writes of research on bonobos in Des Moines at the Great Ape Trust, whose mission is to: Provide sanctuary (200 acres…
When I read comments on blogs (such as the recent ones regarding Bruce Friedrich’s there’s-no-such-thing-as-humane-meat-but-I’m-going-to-spend-a-lot-of-my-time-talking-to-slaughterers -about-slightly-changing-the-way-they-slaughter article at the Huffington Post and CommonDreams), often it’s difficult to find an entry point into the “discussion” (this is particularly true for me…
Aug 8
Yesterday’s post/podcast brought e-mails from wonderful people embarrassed about having made a mistake that led to either a terrible scare, or a terrible tragedy. They reminded me that I, too, made a mistake that I’d like to share, and I…
Aug 7
Today’s photo is of Charles, and its significance is that it’s one of the first taken with my brand new Nikon D40. I’ve been so envious of the photos of Deb at Invisible Voices that I simply had to ditch…
FYI: The Bruce Friedrich blog post, “Humane Meat? A Contradition in Terms” (originally a Huffington Post piece and I blogged about it yesterday) has been picked up by CommonDreams. The discussion in the comments section has a different tone and…
As any reader of Animal Person knows, I’m a big fan of the boycott. One might also say I’m obsessed with the idea that we can use supply and demand to shift (at a glacial pace maybe, but still) the…
Aug 5
When I say “animal rights,” I’m thinking about working toward the day when nonhuman animals have one right and one right only: the right to not be the property of another. After all, once you’re someone’s property, they may use…
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