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About 20 years ago, I lived on women’s land in Arkansas for a couple of months, and that’s when I intentionally murdered a spider. That event still looms in my mind as one of the worst things I ever did to another animal. At one point in my stay, the women who lived there permanently . . . → Read More: Spiders and Why “Happy Meat” is Nothing but Cold-Blooded Murder I had a friend in Ann Arbor, Michigan who told me that as a black woman, she hated the pseudo-acceptance offered to her by so many white liberals in that college town. She said she would rather they were honest with their hatred instead of smiling in her face and quietly locking their car doors . . . → Read More: Minding the Gap: Ruminations About Liberation Check out this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8370301/Chickens-are-capable-of-feeling-empathy-scientists-believe.html Now, while this will be almost unbelievable news to many people, the fact is, it’s not news to those of us who have spent a long time hanging around with chickens. In fact, it’s a no-brainer. What’s also true is that not all chickens feel this kind of feeling toward . . . → Read More: Chickens feel empathy! Are we surprised, and does it matter? We’ve just launched our new cooking show! I won’t ramble about it now — check it out when you have ten minutes to spare, and I promise you’ll have a good time. Sun shifts and sinks hair to shaft, flesh to bone. Sun long ago burned metal cage from mind and I have no memories. Sun passes through me to earth, makes the top of my head red red, hot and dry like sun. I see life in hard dusty rock held under nail and claw, and . . . → Read More: Unconscious Hymn of a Freed Layer Hen This just in from the ASPCA Advocacy Center (abridged for ease of reading): State-level bills are pending in Annapolis that would place all control regarding the treatment of farm animals in the hands of the farm industry! RIGHT NOW, act to defeat Senate Bill 254 and House Bill 676, which aim to create a Livestock . . . → Read More: CRITICAL ACTION ALERT!!! I don’t do sanctuary work out of love. That statement unnerves and offends lots of other sanctuary folks, both supporters and workers. Many of them became vegan because they learned to love a farm animal. Many of them feel the safest, the most loved, around non-human animals. Many of them have devoted years of their . . . → Read More: March is Not the Month of Love There’s a HUGE amount of amazing stuff in here — check it out! We All Have Rights: The Top 45 Animal Advocacy Blogs http://veterinariancolleges.org/we-all-have-rights-the-top-45-animal-advocacy-blogs/ |
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More on Bird Brains…
Last time around, Miriam shared her reactions to the “news” that chickens feel empathy. Pattrice here, with a few more words on the subject of bird feelings, and the brains that generate them.
My first reaction to the news story was a flood of memories. The sanctuary’s original site was on a country road shared . . . → Read More: More on Bird Brains…