Oct 21
For your entertainment and edification today, check out the video posted on the Poplar Springs Volunteer community, and have a hanky handy. Then, if you’ve got 12 minutes, check out the video I helped produce (and I’m in it toward…
Oct 20
Yesterday I had lunch (whole wheat pasta with eggplant in a marinara sauce) with a lovely woman who recently sent me an e-mail asking for sponsorship for some kind of run for some disease and the foundation the donation would…
Oct 19
A couple of months ago I intentionally stopped using the word abolition for a while. It seemed like using it just invited argument. It’s a convenient word, but it also creates problems. Correction–people create problems when they see it. And…
Oct 18
Tomorrow or the next day I’m going to post a debrief regarding my most informal survey (though if comments and e-mails keep coming in I’ll wait). When reading through them I realized that Mary Martin, Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, failed…
Oct 17
In honor of Kim’s comment from yesterday, consider this my impromptu survey: Why Did YOU Go Vegan? I’d love to see a large survey too. And I’d particularly love to see some hard numbers regarding whether happy meat is an…
Oct 16
Today’s photo is my first crack at vegan chocolate chip scones with the recipe from Colleen from Compassionate Cooks’ book The Joy of Vegan Baking. I could’ve left them in for another couple of minutes and browned them up a…
Oct 15
Animal Person reader Chris e-mailed me the following yesterday: Dear Mary, This is a copy of a letter I wrote to a very close friend of mine, a deeply religious person who has been a steadfast carnivore despite being utterly…
Oct 14
Yesterday I received an e-mail from Kristin regarding recommendations of groups to donate to. This leads me to my “What You Can Do” page of my pamphlet (yes, there is a pamphlet, and it’s almost done! I’m posting the first…
Oct 13
Last night at dinner, the manager of the restaurant came around to make sure all was well. She saw we were eating tofu and said, “My mother’s a vegan and my father’s a hunter, go figure.” And then she said…
Oct 12
I used to believe that whether you belonged to PETA or were a true abolitionist, at least you were going in the right direction by advocating vegetarianism. Part of me wanted to avoid the whole “extreme” thing, even though anyone…
I was happily reading “One Woman’s Crusade to Ban Greyhound Racing,” by Cynthia Anderson at The Christian Science Monitor, when something not-so-thrilling caught my eye. But first, applause to Christine Dorchak, who spends her days (and has for well over…
Oct 10
Remember that Saturday Night Live skit in 1988 that was a game show called “Jew, Not a Jew?” Well, now we have “Hoax, Not a Hoax,” starring a bunch of beagles and yours truly. Though beagles are often used in…
Oct 10
Today’s photos of one of my orchids were taken 24 hours apart. One of the plusses of living in South Florida is that I’m surrounded by lush greenery and impossibly bright blooms if I play my cards right (and even…
Oct 9
UPDATE: Please note that I did not write this post, contrary to what some have said. I received it as part of a larger e-mail that collects animal stories from other sites and I was under the impression that they…
Oct 9
The following is from Terry Cumming of SleddogWATCHDOG.com. The Iditarod, Yukon Quest and greyhound racing use “man’s best friend” in the most unjust, hideous ways. I think we have a chance of abolishing these uses of dogs in my lifetime,…
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