Mar 18
Forgot to hit “publish now” on this . . . The New York Times presents us, this morning, with “Equine Alternative” regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier…
Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Below is a…
Mar 17
A long-time Animal Person reader posed a question and requested that I pose it to you. It’s a two-parter. 1) Would you say that the average person wouldn’t think that an animal welfare organization being a hunter is unethical? 2)…
Mar 16
Sometimes thought-provoking comments get passed over because a comments section is getting crowded or digressing or it seems difficult to jump in so you don’t. One of Stephanie’s Iditarod posts has become its own little spinning world, where you’re waiting…
Mar 15
I have this kindergarten teacher/documentary filmmaker friend (as if that didn’t identify her) who knows all of the evils of bringing animals into the world just to eat them. She is a vegetarian and has been for years. She never…
Mar 14
I keep thinking: Okay, I have experienced enough to write a thorough guest post for Stephanie at Change.org on feral cats and TNR. Then something else unexpected happens. I think I have to just write the post and leave it…
Mar 13
That face! I’ve never done this before, but Colleen asked for my help and I could not resist her plea. Hi, I am Duffy, a handsome shepherd mix. I have been here patiently waiting in my little kennel for seven…
Mar 13
Roger sent me this, and it sounds so exciting! Maybe I’ll submit a paper about how great Peter Singer is. (I couldn’t resist.) This has Angus and Dan and Nathan all over it: Special Issue of JAC Human-Animal Relation In…
Mar 12
First I have to again say that Peter Singer was influential in the veganization of Mary Martin: in my evolution from cat person to animal person during my college years. For me and my delicate, cat-person sensibilities, college was a…
Mar 11
When I received an e-mail from a student of Linguistic Anthropology asking for help with a research paper, my first reaction was: Where was that class when I was in school? My second reaction was: Boy, have you come to…
Florida’s legislative session began last week and some rather odd tax exemptions are now under review including: nets used by commercial fisheries; generators used on poultry farms; fuel used to heat the huge warehouses in which chickens raised for meat…
Mar 9
If the happy meat movement has done anything in addition to making needless killing acceptable, it has glorified the “small, local farm.” Deb Durant of Invisible Voices volunteers weekly at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Maryland, where many of the…
Mar 8
Meet Undici . . . And Dodici . . . I’m not sure what they were looking at, but it wasn’t my iPhone. Undici is female and was pregnant (first trimester) with three babies. Dodici is male. Dodici is Italian…
Mar 7
I knew that SHARK had recently been victorious against the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), which falsely claimed copyright infringement and had YouTube disable the SHARK account. What I didn’t know what the legal details, which Simon Owens directed me…
Mar 6
Part of my graduate school education focused on experiential learning, writing across the curriculum, multiple intelligences, and other then-progressive theories that were the antithesis of my own educational experience (until I reached grad school). An educator in South Florida appears…
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