Dec 16
Last night I went to a holiday party and brought a vegan eggnog cheesecake with a graham cracker crust and maple-ish frosting and may I say it was spectacular! First, the all-purpose crust, with which I’ve made a handful of…
Dec 15
Yesterday, while I was busy complaining about a reference to the green sea turtle as a “vegan” rather than an “herbivore,” the commenter known as the bunny was busy compiling quotes from Animal Person where I refer to my Greyhounds…
Dec 14
I had a bit of a stream of consciousness morning, with a handful of ideas swirling around in my head. First, I’ve always wanted to share some of the interesting and often hilarious strings of words people use to search…
Dec 13
The first published use of the word “sentient,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in 1603 by Philemon Holland in Plutarch’s Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals (you can buy the first complete edition in English for USD 11,000 or…
Dec 12
After I had that conversation with the PeTA solicitor who had no idea that PeTA kills healthy animals or promotes animal products, I received e-mails from people who had had similar conversations. Then Beijing Chris recently wrote a letter to…
Dec 11
I won’t post the movie Zeitgeist here, as others who have have unintentionally attracted people who appear from their comments to be more unstable than those who call us “AR nutters” for simply not wanting to be hypocrites. (The film…
Dec 10
Last night, I watched “The Future of Food” (it’s available at Blockbuster.com). This 10-minute trailer starts getting really interesting just before minute eight (and if someone can tell me what is happening with the cow, I think, at minute 8.35,…
Dec 9
When I went to Whole Foods yesterday I did quite a bit of observing and listening. And during this particular trip, there was exactly zero conversation about what kind of standard anyone was operating under regarding treatment and slaughter of…
Dec 8
Beijing Chris alerted me to something quite obscene right here in Florida. Not in Palm Beach County, but my county or your county could be next so I think it’s important for everyone. When the children of Seminole County received…
Dec 7
Eric alerted me to United Poultry Concerns’ conference next March on “Cage Free, Animal Friendly, Go Vegan–What’s the Problem?” After reading some of the many debates, that usually boil down to abolition versus welfare, and commenting on a couple, I’m…
Dec 6
In the discussion regarding my ambivalence about graphic images, Emily recently commented: I think it would help the public debate if people were fully and totally aware of what average farms look like and do. Then they could really choose…
Dec 5
Compassion in World Farming is an international farm animal welfare charity. Welfare, as in, they believe it’s fine to breed and slaughter animals for food when we don’t even need to eat them. Check out their supermarket survey, complete with…
Dec 4
Robert Ben Mitchell, D.O., is on a mission to educate the American public about the currently-acceptable practice–worldwide–of feeding farm-animal feces to other farm animals. He believes his site, www.fecesfarming.com (catchy, eh?) will be shut down, and he recommends printing the…
Dec 3
There are a lot of things I don’t care about one way or the other, but there are very few things I’m ambivalent about. The use of graphic images to further the cause of animal rights is one of them….
Dec 2
Time magazine’s cover story, “What Makes Us Moral,” by Jeffrey Kluger, came at the perfect time, as Nathan (Vegan Abolitionist) and I had just had an exchange about moral development. I had said that I think of morality the way…
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