Oct 26
I immensely enjoyed “EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED” (even on the big screen) and eagerly anticipated “EATING ANIMALS” (Little, Brown 2009) by Jonathan Safran Foer. His writing is beautiful, though I do have to admit that I haven’t seen “shit” and its…
Oct 24
You may recall me writing about TD, my tax-resisting, raw-food eating, no-TV watching, parachuting-into-nuclear reactor(ing?) boyfriend of over 20 years ago. He was particularly talented at the conversation stopper: a succinct response to something that people found so shocking that…
Oct 5
Check this out . . . http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=10363783&referralPlaylistId=playlist It saddens me, and I find it extremely disturbing, that a five-year old child is giddy, and his parents (and the journalists on this program) are so pleased that he killed a 35-40-year…
Sep 19
The Factual table I posted yesterday annoyed me a bit, and here’s why: the categories “vegan,” “vegetarian,” and “vegan-friendly.” Vegan: Got it. I can order anything on the menu without having to ask any questions. Vegetarian: At least it doesn’t…
Sep 5
I was watching a news segment on a wildlife rehabilitation center here in Florida. It was time to feed the bird of prey who was about to be released and while the rehabber was speaking with the interviewer someone emerged…
Sep 1
Now’s your (/my) chance! In my inbox yesterday evening was the following from the Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction . . . UPCOMING THEME: Animals For an upcoming issue, we’re seeking new essays about the bonds–emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or…
Aug 27
Animal Person reader stevetshirt wrote to say that my interview is available on Animal Voices. Here’s to shameless self-promotion! Check it out at http://www.animalvoices.ca/shows/mary_martin and thanks to Karol Orzechowski for interviewing me.
Aug 23
The New York Times’ Nicholas D. Kristof frustrates me. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. He comes so close to grasping the concept of justice…
Aug 18
First let me say that if you are a regular reader, thank you, and I apologize for not posting regularly for the past couple of weeks. I . . . . (gasp) . . . . have a job outside…
Aug 12
My dogs eat vegan dog food. They don’t have collars made from animals. But they also haven’t made a moral choice to not use animals. To say they are vegans is odd to me, though I have done that as…
Aug 9
When I saw the Live Science article about dogs being as smart as 2-year-old kids I knew that if there were any talk of ranking, my beloved greyhounds would be at the less-desirable end of the list (not from personal…
Aug 5
Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie’s blog, in the comments)I have come across the following statement: “[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if…
Aug 3
Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com, in which Rep. David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand…
Aug 1
Something interesting happened when I read New York Times columnist Bob Herbert’s article about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., called “Anger Has Its Place.” Allow me to jump down to the paragraph that startled me into…
Jul 28
I don’t spend much time at Care2, and I’m never looking forward to going to a site when I know someone has insulted me, like yesterday, but I am curious about one thing that I’ve never heard before: “veganism is…
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