On Memorial Day weekend 30 years ago, I moved out of my mother’s home and into my first apartment, the lease for which I had signed illegally, being only 17. Since it was 1979 and I was 17, you can probably guess why my memories of that weekend, while colorful, are blurry. My roommate and [...]
Scientists are terrorists. That’s the word from Feedstuffs, the leading weekly trade paper for U.S. agribusiness. Responding to a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report on Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks, Feedstuffs published an editorial stating that “FAO claims to use scientists to generate its reports, but I wonder if those scientists don’t [...]
So, I’m off to the annual Animal Rights National Conference and, unlike last year, I’m not even going to try to blog while I’m there. Maybe I’ll post an on-the-spot report but probably not.
Instead here are three documents I’ll be distributing while there:
All Out to the Grocery Stores and Gas Stations!
Strategic Action for Animals [...]
Julio slipped away today. A former prize fighter with an especially gentle disposition, elderly Julio will be missed by the elderly hens with whom he had been keeping company in recent months and also by the orphaned chick who had found solace in him.
Julio — described in this 2005 Wall Street Journal article as a [...]
Lilacs bloomed in my urban backyard every spring in Ypsilanti. Every year, I watched the buds swell, waiting for the moment when they would burst into flower, filling the air with a delicate scent that seemed to prove something about the persistence of beauty. The weeks when the lilac bloomed were always too short and [...]
I’ve been meaning to send everybody over to a relatively new blog started up by Debra Durham of the International Association for Animal Trauma and Recovery. An ethologist and primatologist with a particular interest in trauma recover and a good grounding in feminist theory, Durham uses the Reading Animals blog to share her often very [...]
I’ve written before about birds in the library, like Saturn the rooster (who’s now outside in the infirmary yard with other elderly birds) and Greenbird the parrot (who’s now doing very well at the parrot sanctuary). This week it’s chicks. Eight multicolored fluffballs whose wings are just beginning to feather are camped out in the [...]
