May 16
Several comments from the past couple of days have provided great suggestions if you happen to have some time for a little unplanned activism today. First, Terry Cumming alerted us that Ron Reagan Jr. will be featuring Eight Belles’ death…
May 15
I was actually going to let this one go because I knew I would write about the snubbing of Peaceful Prairie yesterday, but Bea (in the comments of this post) just couldn’t stand by and have it go unnoticed. What,…
May 14
Michele Alley-Grubb from Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary updated me yesterday about her purchase of ad space for “Milk Comes From Grieving Mothers” and “Can You Tell the Difference?” (between battery and free-range hens). After Michele spent dozens of hours placing and…
May 13
In today’s New York Times, Op-ed columnist David Brooks writes about “The Neural Buddhists,” which likely would include yours truly, but I’m pretty sure you won’t catch me using the term. I’ve been calling myself a quasi-Buddhist for a while,…
May 12
“King Corn” is: a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to…
May 11
It’s Mother’s Day weekend, so I’m allowed to do whatever I want and everyone has to do what I say and I make all the decisions. One of my decisions was that we would watch “The Edukators,” which is in…
May 10
Roger forwarded me the following: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:11 AM It has been announced that the Novartis Vienna lab is closing down in June. There are 24.863 animals still in the lab – 23,000 mice, 1.700 rats, 93 pigs,…
May 9
As you may know, I’ve ghostwritten several dozen books, a dozen of which are about personal finance, and several of which were New York Times bestsellers. Furthermore, my husband is a CFP (Certified Financial Planner) who manages the money of…
Jane Shakman’s Letter to the Editor under “The Welfare of Horses” in today’s New York Times is about welfare rather than abolition, however its other points are worth recognition: “But let us also give thought to the thousands of horses…
May 7
Did you read “Lots of Animals Learn, But Smarter Isn’t Better,” by Carl Zimmer in yesterday’s New York Times? It begins with: Why are humans so smart?” is a question that fascinates scientists. Tadeusz Kawecki, an evolutionary biologist at the…
May 6
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a massive stroke and was left with a condition called Locked-In syndrome, where he was fully conscious and aware of everything around him, but was almost…
May 5
I finally read pattrice jones’ AFTERSHOCK: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World-A Guide for Activists and Their Allies, and found multiple points of entry, probably the most significant being the trauma of being lied to about nonhuman animals. Not just…
May 4
This is Eight Belles, a filly who fractured both of her front ankles, moments before she was killed on the track at yesterday’s Kentucky Derby. My first Animal Person post, on May 22, 2006, was called “Barbaro Made Me Do…
May 3
Every newspaper in the US will have a story about the Kentucky Derby today and then tomorrow. Regardless of whose leg gets broken, who wins, who has to be “put down” either today or weeks from now, or if the…
May 2
Michele at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary has the opportunity to purchase ad space in a mainstream magazine for the following two ads that would run side-by-side (2 pages total). The ads are also ready for easy and inexpensive duplication if you’d…
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