On Valentines and Self-Monitoring
Happy Valentine’s Day and Quirky Alone Day! Above is Dreena Burton’s “You Got Peanut Butter in My Chocolate” Cookie from Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, which I made as one big cookie that I carved into a heart and topped…
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Feb 14
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On Vegan Birthdays and Animal Fighting?
Welcome to Vegan Birthdays, an offshoot of Veganizing Your Guests and Friends by Cooking for Them, which is apparently my new calling. We have a 44 and a 50-year old, and of course my husband making his obligatory let’s-see-if-I-can-ruin-the-picture face….
Feb 12
On the Yukon Quest
Photo by Ian Stewart of the Yukon News In keeping with this week’s inadvertent twisted-things-we-do-to-dogs theme, I give you the Yukon Quest, which is sort of the less-popular stepsister of the Iditarod, but no less horrible for the dogs. It…
Feb 11
On Canine Eugenics
The timing of the PeTA video about breedism went, as they say, right over my head. I had no idea that the Westminster Kennel Club’s annual dog show begins today. It was only when I started reading “Top Dogs Live…
Feb 10
When Animals Might Be Used for Education
The sea turtle rehabilitation center I volunteer at has a healthy “education” turtle who has been there since he was a hatchling, two years ago. He’ll be released in spring or summer and there will be no more education turtles…
On Films and Knowing Where Your Food Comes From
While I was making seitan (italian style, with oregano, garlic and onions baked in) for this weekend’s guests last night, I watched “The Fever,” starring Vanessa Redgrave. The film tied in nicely with a comment by Alex on my Rethos…
Palm Beach County’s Itsy Bitsy Progress
It’s so rare that anything good happens in Palm Beach County when it comes to animals. We have months of polo and horse shows, Ringling Brothers and even the Walker Brothers circus come annually, and Busch Wildlife Sanctuary’s most recent…
Feb 7
A PeTA Video I Actually Like
Okay, don’t get all I can’t believe Mary Martin supports PeTA! I laughed out loud when I saw this. Because I have a sense of humor and appreciate irony. It jars the audience into making an inconvenient connection, and I…
Feb 7
On The New Abolitionism
Remember how I started by thinking that we must stop using animals, but in the interim we should campaign for any measures that might relieve suffering? Then, remember when after reading Gary Francione at the end of 2006, I was…
On Saving Elephants
He’s one of those rare people who, against odds, seek to make their vision come true. In his case, it’s a vision of saving an endangered species, and giving elephants a better life. He may not explain it that way,…
Feb 5
On Medical Mysteries and Feeling Like an Alien
In “A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota,” in today’s New York Times, Denise Grady reports that 12 slaughterhouse workers at Quality Pork Processors in Austin, Minnesota have become ill with a mysterious disorder that causes damage to their nerves. Let’s…
Feb 4
Is Vegan Education Enough?
I’ve been enjoying great success with my Cooking with Guests strategy for veganizing people in my life. We cook, we shop, we visit websites, we talk, we read, we go to restaurants, and in a couple of days they have…
Feb 3
How About Giving Up Slaughter, and Not Just for Lent?
It’s hard to come down on Louisiana, particularly the New Orleans area after what they’ve been through, but nothing makes you say “WTF?” more than the ritual slaughter of a pig, purely for entertainment purposes. I’m assuming the photo attached…
Feb 2
More on Vick’s Dogs, China and Property Damage
I snapped this little guy at 4am. He uses the jade buttons like a hammock, draping himself between them and securing himself by wrapping his tail once around the thinnest part of one. That’s a spider’s silk thread on the…
Feb 1
Are Utilitarians Jerks?
In “When Morality is Hard to Like,” by Jorge Moll and Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Unit at Labs D’Or in Rio de Janeiro in the February/March 2008 issue of Scientific American Mind, the topic is:…
