Mar 17
Sometimes I feel like I’m too much of a downer. I might have to start making Mondays Good News Day, if I can find enough appropriate news, that is. Today I celebrate the individual nonhuman animal, one Caretta caretta (loggerhead…
Mar 16
The Rooney family, founding owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers, owners of several “Public Houses” (read: bars) in Palm Beach County, and also local politician-hopefuls (Republican), own the Palm Beach Kennel Club. I think you know where this is going. The…
Mar 15
For a moment I though that the New York Times, or at least sports writer William C. Rhoden, just might be beginning to understand that animal rights isn’t the same as animal welfare. Then I read the article. In “Vick…
In case you didn’t read the comment left by Michael Prejean, he has generously offered to match donations to Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary through the end of March. E-mail him at Smash_HLS@comcast.net. Thanks Michael!
Mar 13
Did you see Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. President Steve Mendell on the news yesterday? He defended himself and during his statement he said that the cows in the HSUS video “were not harvested . . . were not slaughtered . ….
Mar 12
As many of you know by now, Chris Alley-Grubb, co-founder of Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, suffered a heart attack last week. Here’s the text from the e-mail entitled “Heart Strong:” Chris has been Vegan for 18 years, and doesn’t fit any…
Mar 11
Thanks to Terry and Mark for alerting me to the second dog in the Iditarod to die. This one died when a snowmobiler ran into a team of dogs. How exactly can something like that happen? How do you not…
Mar 10
Thanks to Mike for pointing out that last week the first dog died in the Iditarod. The coverage at AOL is more than most (others just reprinted the AP story). Zaster, a 7-year old male dog, had apparently been showing…
Mar 9
I have never been a person dismayed by the use of the Holocaust analogy when it comes to animals. Actually, I have said that mass slaughter of nonhuman animals is in a way worse in that the entire world is…
Mar 8
I frequently drink lemon water at home, and when I’m out if I don’t order herbal tea I order water with lemon. Or at least I used to . . . As for hunters, we all know their numbers are…
The latest installment of Grist’s series, Meat Wagon, is called Beef Behemoth and provides some statistics you might find useful in your daily activism. Grist isn’t known for caring about animals, and there’s never any hint that using them is…
Mar 6
We all know that a vegan diet has a smaller carbon footprint than the typical omnivorous diet, (assuming the vegan’s diet isn’t loaded with processed food and non-organic fruits and vegetables shipped thousands of miles). Perhaps you see the problem…
Mar 5
Last week, when I wrote about Captain Boycott, Dan made an interesting comment about how what he does isn’t really a boycott: If my understanding of the word is correct, then I am not boycotting animal products any more than…
I’ve posted a short piece about Animals and Culture (Part Deux) at Rethos that includes a photo of a horse my unconscious neighbor hired to lug a bunch of kids around for a birthday party in the 90+ degree heat…
It was with profound disbelief that I read the editorial, “Priced Out of the Market,” in the New York Times this morning. It begins: “The world’s food situation is bleak, and shortsighted policies in the United States and other wealthy…
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