On Vegan Cake, Hungry Vegan Meals and NOHARM
While most of the country is in a deep freeze, this is visitor season for me, where nary a weekend goes by without at least an overnight stay by a good friend or family member. No matter who’s in town,…
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Jan 20
Download “Thinking Critically About Animal Rights” Redux
Thanks to Kenneth for alerting me to the fact that it is 2008 and my pamphlet said 2007, to Deb for educating me about the reality that female calves get vealed, too, and to Alex for spotting a misplaced comma…
Jan 20
Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest.
I was going to write about the food I bought from The Hungry Vegan, but that’ll have to wait because there’s a more urgent matter: I need to tell my friends in the UK to buy veal because it’s okay…
On Whaling and Omnivores
There’s been quite a brouhaha regarding Japanese whaling (much of which is misnamed “research”), with whalers taking (and releasing) hostages and accusations of white supremacy (of Australians against the Japanese). But as Peter Singer writes in “Harpooned by Hypocrisy” in…
On Report Cards and Released Turtles
First, thanks to Chris from Beijing for alerting me about the successful expulsion of The Ronald McDonald Report Card from Seminole County schools (here in Florida, but nowhere near me. You may recall I wrote about this issue in December)….
On Ordinances That Decrease the Cat and Dog Population
When visits to “The Stark Reality of Euthanasia,” which I wrote back in October, jumped to over 100 per day (which is odd for me for a several-month old post), along with “On Photos of ‘Euthanasia,'” I started paying attention…
On “Ethics That Come Out of Your Wallet”
Zoe Williams’ commentary, “Jamie’s Fowl Sanctimony” in this morning’s Guardian Unlimited raises some obvious questions, but it’s the ones Williams inadvertently raises that are really interesting. Let’s deconstruct: Chef Jaimie Oliver and farmer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (among others) have been protesting…
Jan 15
On What an AR Organization Might Do
I get a lot of e-mails asking what exactly an animal rights organization (or a movement or an initiative) might do. Many of the people are skeptical that there is a need for an organization, and they are certain that…
On Stakeholders of “The Movement”
Whenever it’s time to list stakeholders during a strategic planning session, I tend to give my input at the beginning, with the most obvious stakeholders. For instance, I’d be the genius who’d say: “animals and activists” if we all had…
UPDATE: Elephants in Zoos
A couple of weeks ago I had thought that the number of elephants in zoos has declined. I heard back from Melissa Gonzales, the National Grassroots Campaigns Coordinator at In Defense of Animals late last week. She wrote that while…
Jan 13
On the Factory Farm Incentive Program
This photo, from “In the Farm Bill, a Creature from the Black Lagoon?” by Andrew Martin in today’s New York Times, is one of the most captivating, damning images I’ve seen in a long time regarding our treatment of animals…
Jan 12
On The Moral Instinct
Harvard Professor and author Steven Pinker’s “The Moral Instinct” in tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine addresses a handful of topics we vegans frequently talk about. I think everyone should read it and ponder it in relation to their own activism…
On “Horse People”
First, commented yesterday that we here are clearly not “horse people,” and my response was that love of a species, or animals in general, isn’t the point. What we want is for horses to be able to live their natural…
Miami-Dade Residents: Help Dogs and Horses
Miami-Dade (Florida) residents can help the Greyhound racing industry continue to die by Voting No on The Special Election Ballot: County Question No. 3 (here’s an approximation of what you’ll see): OFFICIAL SPECIAL ELECTION BALLOT MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA JANUARY 29,…
On Making Formal (Vegan) Education a Priority
I’ve been doing some more thinking about what should be included in an initiative/organization/movement, and I think getting kids thinking critically–in the classroom (fabulously new idea, eh?)–should be a priority. In the past, when a group I was working with…
