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On THE POWER OF HABIT and Going Vegan

THE POWER OF HABIT: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Random House 2012) by Charles Duhigg is important for people transitioning away from the use of animals as well as people who study social movements.

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Where Does Vegan Baby Sky Get Her Protein?

I’m constantly asked about the details of Baby Sky’s life. Where does she get her protein? How are her bones going to grow without cow’s milk? You mean she’s never eaten bacon? Are you a communist? At Baby Sky’s 15…

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On “Imposing” Our Beliefs on Our Children

It’s fascinating, how what 98% of Americans do with their children is called “parenting” and “guidance.” It can also be referred to as “transmission of culture,” with its handing down of the trappings, rituals, holidays and even mutilations of religion…

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Vegan Atheist 40+ Parenting

I was going to change Animal Person to Vegan Atheist 40+ Parenting and come back to blogging. Doesn’t have a ring to it at all, but a young man at Whole . . .

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Hal Herzog’s “Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat”

Hal Herzog’s “Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression, we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences…

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On Individuals and Thanksgiving

Yesterday, I was on my way to the Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, which has a “store” and allows those parents to “shop” for clothing, toys and baby gear at no cost to them. Basically, they give stuff away, unlike…

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On Jeff Corwin’s 100 HEARTBEATS

When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin’s 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent. I know he’s a “conservationist,” therefore I know he will advocate for “managing” the “resources” that are sentient nonhumans. And managing means…

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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky’s first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn’t eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we’ll be correcting). There will be no greyhound corpse on our…

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On HIGH IN THE CLOUDS

HIGH IN THE CLOUDS, by Paul McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh is supposed to be for Grades 2-4, but its themes, vocabulary and syntax are more advanced. From Barnes and Noble: “Wirral the Squirrel is homeless. The evil Gretsch…

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“Creature Quotes” Is Here!

“Creature Quotes: Advancing Toward Freedom For All Species,” compiled and edited by SBH Clay, is now available. From the Introduction: “Humans are fascinated by animals. . . . For all our devotion, though, we sometimes seem not to recognize the…

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

After all this time it seems that . . . the Island’s sideways world was a purgatory of sorts where the Oceanic 815 survivors were supposed to learn more lessons or go one way or the other (good or bad),…

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Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Animal Person, Part 2

Yesterday’s lessons learned were primarily about blogging. Today they’re about language. Lesson #7 Obsessing over language can become counterproductive. And this, coming from a person with a doctorate in Applied Linguistics. I can talk about language all day, every day….

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo, Part Deux

Coincidentally, last night was a board meeting for our homeowner’s association, and though I wasn’t on the agenda there’s always time for homeowner comments about, say, the petting zoo and pony rides that are scheduled for the spring “BBQ” (here’s…

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On “Pets” and “Its”

I went back to New York to the areas where I grew up and went to college and graduate school for a five-day weekend. I’d been longing for NYC and, as usual, thinking about moving back. The Nor’easter cured me…

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On Honoring Living “Things”

William Horden’s, “The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart” is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over “spiritual” people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. “My father…

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