Oct 9
Welcome to The Twilight Zone, otherwise known as The Sunshine State . . . Florida. Just north of me last week, three lovely young gentlemen (Caleb Smith, 21; John Richmond, 18; and Anthony Strickland, 26) were out for a night…
Oct 6
Next month, Massachusetts voters will get yet another chance to ban greyhound racing in their state. The last election (in 2000) was very close, with the dogs losing and sentenced to further boredom and loneliness, living in kennels, combined with…
Sep 20
Footage from Steve Best’s keynote as well as the panel discussion from One Struggle (Animal Rights Africa) is available here. Though they live a world away from me, the activists’ issues weren’t a world away at all. From struggling to…
Sep 18
Today’s question is: Are there too many people on the planet, or are some of them/us using far too many resources, and we would do just fine with 6.7 billion people if our (as in, most Americans’) consumption was decreased…
Aug 23
The palm oil crisis has had another big break. In terms of coverage, at least. Fortune magazine’s “Eco-police Find New Target: Oreos,” by Marc Gunther, re-alerts the masses that . . . “The link between the supermarket shelf, climate change…
Aug 21
A handful of people sent me an article I wasn’t surprised at, until the end. In January, I wrote about how Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) was promoting veal. Well, they’re still doing that, and now they’re joined by none…
Jun 26
Supporters of a ban on Greyhound racing in Massachusetts have submitted 45,000 signatures (11,099 were needed) and in November the people will decide whether or not to shut down Raynham-Taunton and Wonderland Greyhound Parks (yes, “park” is part of the…
Jun 7
There are few things more tragic to me than when someone almost takes his thoughts to their logical conclusion, falls short, and then appears to think he’s onto something really big. Allow me an example to elucidate using Peter Thomas…
May 31
Because we all spend a greater-than-average amount of time thinking, reading, writing and talking about issues related to sentient nonhumans, when someone says: “What’s wrong with drinking cow’s milk” or “It doesn’t pay for farmers to abuse their animals, they’d…
May 27
One of my two current Gray Matters is capitalism. I have a difficult time seeing it (rather than greed or unethical behavior) as the core problem. Like any system, it’s only as good as the people involved, which I guess…
May 18
I watched “Hidden Horses” a couple of nights ago on REALsports, which is an HBO series hosted by Bryant Gumbel. Here’s the blurb: Few casual horse racing fans are aware that many former racing horses are slaughtered for profit. When…
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 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…
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