On Ducks and Geese
This is Girlie Girl . . . Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course . . . Reading Deb’s post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny’s request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese…
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May 11
On Small Victories
Yesterday’s “Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate?” makes some fantastic points that are worth repeating and deconstructing. Here’s the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. A famous Ottawa restaurant removed foie gras…
Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
In “‘Animal Rights:’ Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy,” Massachusetts attorney and “sportsman” Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing…
May 9
On Surreal Lobster Advocacy
My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. Yesterday I received an e-mail alert from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) regarding…
May 8
Charles Comes Home!
I’ve been a bit preoccupied with a couple of stranger-than-fiction situations that recently caused me to tweet “Sometimes I wish there were a god so I’d have someone to blame.” But alas . . . One situation was that Charles,…
May 7
What is Oprah Thinking?
No, he’s not a vegan. And his reasoning isn’t my reasoning, but he has some great points. I caught the last few minutes of Oprah a couple of days ago, when she gave grilled KFC to the audience and apparently…
May 6
The Book That Saved Derrick Jensen’s Life
The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen’s life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when…
May 3
On Flourless Cakes and Injuries
This, dear readers, is my new obsession. Though I have never had an issue with gluten, I have decided to lower my intake of it as an experiment, just to see if I feel any kind of difference. I began…
On “Discarded” Greyhounds
From and article by: Ms T Baker Co-ordinator, www.greytexploitations.com (which has that fabulous Racism=Speciesism=Sexism graphic on its front page) Dougie is the third greyhound in as many months – which we know of – to have been subjected to this…
