Aug 18
I was going to extensively quote Steve Best’s “From ‘Man the the Hunter’ to Homo X: Rethinking Human Nature” at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Blog, but then I heard some disquieting news–there’s a hurricane by the name of…
Aug 18
Despite the fact that I frequently utter the sentence–Though I cannot confirm nor deny the existence of a god, whether or not there is one is irrelevant to me–that doesn’t mean I don’t want to hear from people who are…
Aug 17
Last week there was a segment on my local news about a canine blood drive in Denver. Greyhounds make up the largest percentage of “donors” by breed, as most are universal blood donors (and are docile and easy to work…
Aug 16
If you didn’t see “Why They’re Human Rights,” by Russell Paul La Valle in July 27th’s Washington Post, consider yourself lucky, as it’s eye-rollingly frustrating in its misconceptions and its speciesism. Fortunately, Barbara J. King took him on in yesterday’s…
Aug 15
Today, the Washington Post was kind enough to provide two spectacular specimens to deconstruct, one of which is actually a deconstruction of a third specimen, making my job quite easy for today. In “Dawn in Louisiana: With Cockfighting Outlawed, a…
Bea directed me to eInterview.org, “a Social Psychology Network partner site headquartered at Wesleyan University.” There are currently two interviews you can take: one on Diet & Lifestyle, and the other on Race & Advertising. The technology is fascinating and…
Aug 13
Roger directed me to “Mad Cows (and Livid Lambs)” from Sunday’s Telegraph, which has some fantastic quotes. Here are a few, and they’ll give you the gist of the article: After centuries of being eaten, evicted, subjected to vivisection, killed…
Aug 12
Two recent stories brought to us best (for those of us with a twisted sense of humor) by Grist are “Meat Wagon: Whole Foods Edition” and “I’ll Have the Marsupial of the Day.” The Whole Foods story is quite embarrassing,…
Aug 11
I’ve touched on this imperfect idea before, but stay with me for a moment. You know how with shareholder activism, people who want to change something about a company buy lots of shares (it doesn’t have to happen exactly like…
Aug 10
Last year, I decided that in 2008 I wouldn’t to give any large sum (everyone has their own definition of that) to any organization (that’s how I usually do my charitable giving). Instead, I would give smaller amounts, and spread…
Aug 9
Susan Clay of Houston alerted me to the fact that the editorial board of The Christian Science Monitor appears to be very confused about animal rights in its “Do Apes Have Human Rights?” Perhaps some clarity in a letter to…
Aug 8
Riddle me this: When is infighting infighting, and when is asceticism asceticism? Infighting I have four questions as a result of the recent discussions about counter-protests, infighting, Will Potter and lettuce: Is it infighting when the groups don’t have the…
Aug 7
Dr. Neal Barnard of PCRM tells stories of how now his family, from Fargo, I believe, where they grew up eating meat and corn or meat and peas for every dinner, are now vegans. Obviously he’s doing something right in…
Aug 6
As you may know, Will Potter over at Green Is the New Red mentioned “On PeTA Versus Friends of Animals” and saw the situation through a different (though not surprising, for him) lens. I wasn’t thinking of the situation from…
Aug 5
I’ve been very busy with the early arrival of a new extended family member, Evan Levi (6lb. 3 oz., 19.5″ of perfect gorgeousness), so I haven’t had much time to participate on my own blog. The hospital has wireless Internet…
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