Apr 30
Thanks to Adam at AbolitionistVegans.org for: Win Free Vegan Products at AbolitionistVegans.org During the next few weeks, we will be watching activity in the forum and in the comments on the front page to select users as recipients for several…
Apr 29
Jenny sent me a link to a remarkably-ironic story that was very tough to get through. Remember Catherine Friend, who wrote Compassionate Carnivore? (Here’s my commentary on it, and here’s my commentary about what compassionate carnivore means–and doesn’t mean.) Well,…
Apr 28
“The only way to stop population growth is to have small families.” -Hans Rosling Thanks, Porphyry!
Apr 27
I have to take Charles for his pre-op (tomorrow’s his big day), but Bea sent a link to “Is an Animal a Legal Person?” at Opposing Views. Perhaps you’d like to be the first to comment. I’ll try to post…
Apr 26
Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in “Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to…
Apr 25
I have fed Charles Hobson Booger, III and Violet Rays every type of diet from raw (as in, turkey necks and chicken backs) to pre-made raw (comes in patties with greens and bones and supplements in it), to homemade vegan…
Apr 24
Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority, mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I’ve often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance…
Apr 23
I’ve been tweeting (http://www.twitter.com/mary_martin) for a short time and I have more than anything else the overwhelming feeling that I am part of a minuscule minority within an already small segment of the population. I’m a vegan who thinks we…
Apr 22
So this was in my e-mail box this morning. Now what? How ridiculous is it that “On the Psychological Continuum,” to say nothing of an article against rabbit fur, is on the same page as Gabriella’s Fur Den? The ads…
Today is the launch of . . . I’m excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don’t usually subscribe to blogs. Also, it has the added bonus of organizing my content…
Apr 20
Animal rights activists have considered sentient nonhumans as persons for quite some time. But on rare occasions, the animal-using world deigns to use the term when referring to an animal. In “Hungary’s Spirits Are Back Up, on a Horse,” the…
Apr 18
Yesterday, Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? I get so sad when I hear about the mistreatment…
Apr 17
In “Big Food is Copying Big Tobacco’s Disinformation Tactics, How Many Will Die This Time?” Fen Montaigne writes about the similarities between how big food is denying its negative impacts on health to how big tobacco did the same. What…
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