Don’t worry, I’m not going to get all family album on you. Anyone who’s read more than one of these blogs knows I’m not like that. However, I will just note that despite the caustic tone I generally bestow upon most human beings, I do have some humans in my life for whom I . . . → Read More: My Sister: A Story About Veganism
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On Monday, January 16th, we had a vet put Snowball, an almost-19-year-old cow, to sleep. “Put to sleep” is a nice euphemism for “put to death,” because death tends to be hard for most humans to think about, and it’s easier to imagine someone going to sleep than someone going . . . → Read More: We Will Miss You, Snowball If you are the sort to make New Year’s resolutions, which ones have you made that pertain to non-human animals? While it’s common to focus one’s efforts upon Improving Oneself (I will lose weight, I will read more, I will take an evening class), how about this year making at least one resolution that . . . → Read More: New Year’s Resolutions, Anyone? Thanks to everyone who wrote in and let me know that the piece about the teacher taking kids to see cows being murdered was fake. I did see that the site was “NewsWEAK,” but I thought that referred to the authors’ opinions about the news, not that the news itself was FAKE. So, I . . . → Read More: Sorry I’m a Sucker!! I suggest we all send thank-you notes to this teacher who inadvertently (one hopes) turned at least a few kids into life-long vegans: http://newsweak.com/news/school-field-trip-tour-of-slaughterhouse-traumatizes-children#.TvkcWoXncWw.facebook This is a follow-up to my previous post about the 10 fighters and 4 juvenile fighters and hens we took in a couple of weeks ago. I couldn’t say anything about this until I knew that all the rest of the birds had been taken to safety. Now they are safe, so now I . . . → Read More: Safe Haven? SUNY Cobleskill Murders Roosters for Research I wanted to let the world know — yet again — that YES, fighting cocks CAN be rehabilitated, YES, they can live happily and peacefully with other chickens, and YES, VINE continues to be the only established non-profit animal rights sanctuary who helps them recover from their ordeal. Eight days ago, VINE took in . . . → Read More: Ten New Fighting Cocks Happy and Healthy at VINE! The message below is being sent upon the request of another AR group in Vermont (which has just about NO animal rights presence) — please support them if you can! Miriam In honor of World Farm Animals’ Day, Green Mountain Animal Defenders has organized a fundraising walk in downtown Burlington, VT! Sadly, over 65 . . . → Read More: *PLEASE GET MOOOOOVING FOR FARM ANIMALS ON OCTOBER 2ND!* In 2000, Randy Thornhill, an evolutionary biologist, co-authored a book called “A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion.” Needless to say, an academic- and activist-fueled storm was unleashed, and the theory was soon discredited by respected biologists, psychologists, anthropologists, who pretty quickly found that in fact, the evolutionary costs of committing . . . → Read More: Is Rape Evolutionary? Check it out. For whatever it’s worth, I agree completely with his assertions, including the one in which he notes that homo sapiens sapiens never HAS been a nice kind of species, regardless of what anyone might like to imagine in our more wistful moments. The reality is that we’ve been conquering, dominating creatures . . . → Read More: Excellent New Essay by Steve Best |
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