Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I long for the realistic hope that one second will pass without torture and slaughter and enslavement, and I know perfectly well that that second, despite Earth Days and Earth Hours and Meat-Free Days, isn't going to happen. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. People are simply too selfish.

Tnr 100

Tnr Vegan Suffering Animal Cruelty 100

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. You could easily argue," he added, that the resources necessary to buy and train a new monkey would be a net minus for animal welfare. Why should we euthanize Clayton and start over?

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100