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Verse 18 of the Tao begins with this sentence: When the great Tao is forgotten / Kindness and morality arise. (Translation by Gia Fu Feng & Jane English) This passage came to my mind the minute I read the news that Bolivia is about to grant rights to “mother nature.” The story is all . . . → Read More: Bolivia and the Tao: Some General Thoughts Read this when you have some time; brilliantly done, not only because of its perspective on Peter Singer, but also as a reminder that it’s all too easy to slide down terrifying slopes. Absolutely worth reading. http://www.upc-online.org/thinking/peter_singer.html When I was involved with human-oriented social justice issues, paying attention to language was a big part of the work I did (along with the folks with whom I affiliated). Specifically, how should we refer to women? How should we refer to lesbians and other gay people? How should we refer to people of color? . . . → Read More: Challenge to All Animal Rights Activists (Including Myself) I’ve got lots of thoughts running around in my brain lately, but haven’t had the energy to put them into a cohesive-enough form for a blog post, so I thought I’d take time to write about some things that are easy to articulate; namely, the animals and the folks who take care of them here. . . . → Read More: Huge Cows and Sanctuary Workers on an Early Spring Day 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 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 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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