On Steve Best and YOU
There’s a deafening silence over here at Animal Person regarding yesterday’s post, and I’m thinking two things: “Mary, how on earth can you expect anyone to read a daily blog and then post something so long? Do a recap and…
Posts from the ‘Language’ Category
Aug 26
Aug 25
Steve Best on Wayne Pacelle, HSUS and the FBI
As promised, today I bring you Steve Best on Wayne Pacelle and HSUS (which is also posted at Critical Animal Studies and at Thomas Paine’s Corner) . . . Agent Wayne Pacelle, the Hypocrisy Society of the United States, and…
On China, Silencing Dissidents and New Strategies
Fresh from Beijing this morning, I bring you thoughts and an appeal from an Animal Person reader that isn’t just about eating cats, which is as unacceptable as eating chickens. It’s about the industry and the environment that breeds not…
Aug 23
On the Palm Oil Crisis, Trolls and Steve Best
The palm oil crisis has had another big break. In terms of coverage, at least. Fortune magazine’s “Eco-police Find New Target: Oreos,” by Marc Gunther, re-alerts the masses that . . . “The link between the supermarket shelf, climate change…
Aug 22
Baby Whale Off Sydney “Put Down”
What to eat today? Easy. Need new dress shoes. Where to buy? Easy. (Though when you factor in the environment and workers’ rights, definitely more expensive. Like close to a hundred times more.) Whether or not to kill a baby…
Aug 21
The PETA I Knew and Loved, Sort Of
A handful of people sent me an article I wasn’t surprised at, until the end. In January, I wrote about how Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) was promoting veal. Well, they’re still doing that, and now they’re joined by none…
Aug 20
Voice Your Opposition to AETA
Today, Angela brings us the following: Please voice your opposition to AETA Please send letters for Abolish AETA as a presidential proposal. Candidate contacts: Senator Barack Obama Obama for America P.O. Box 8102 Chicago, IL 60680 Phone: 866-675-2008 Online Contact:…
Aug 18
On Asceticism and Catholicism
Despite the fact that I frequently utter the sentence–Though I cannot confirm nor deny the existence of a god, whether or not there is one is irrelevant to me–that doesn’t mean I don’t want to hear from people who are…
Aug 17
On Dogs Who “Donate” Blood
Last week there was a segment on my local news about a canine blood drive in Denver. Greyhounds make up the largest percentage of “donors” by breed, as most are universal blood donors (and are docile and easy to work…
Aug 16
Rights for Apes: Op-Ed vs. Op-Ed
If you didn’t see “Why They’re Human Rights,” by Russell Paul La Valle in July 27th’s Washington Post, consider yourself lucky, as it’s eye-rollingly frustrating in its misconceptions and its speciesism. Fortunately, Barbara J. King took him on in yesterday’s…
Aug 15
On Cockfighters and Religion
Today, the Washington Post was kind enough to provide two spectacular specimens to deconstruct, one of which is actually a deconstruction of a third specimen, making my job quite easy for today. In “Dawn in Louisiana: With Cockfighting Outlawed, a…
On Interviews, Quizzes and Coyote Decoys
Bea directed me to eInterview.org, “a Social Psychology Network partner site headquartered at Wesleyan University.” There are currently two interviews you can take: one on Diet & Lifestyle, and the other on Race & Advertising. The technology is fascinating and…
Aug 13
On HAC-Human Animal Conflict
Roger directed me to “Mad Cows (and Livid Lambs)” from Sunday’s Telegraph, which has some fantastic quotes. Here are a few, and they’ll give you the gist of the article: After centuries of being eaten, evicted, subjected to vivisection, killed…
Aug 12
On Whole Foods and Kangaroos
Two recent stories brought to us best (for those of us with a twisted sense of humor) by Grist are “Meat Wagon: Whole Foods Edition” and “I’ll Have the Marsupial of the Day.” The Whole Foods story is quite embarrassing,…
Aug 11
On Donor Activism
I’ve touched on this imperfect idea before, but stay with me for a moment. You know how with shareholder activism, people who want to change something about a company buy lots of shares (it doesn’t have to happen exactly like…
