Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

My clients have always been a combination of experts who already have book deals with large publishers, and entrepreneurs who say Why on Earth would I let them take so much of my potential profits? Sometimes the goal is indeed to get a big NY house to publish your book, as perhaps your career trajectory requires that.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Sir Paul McCartney, children's book author Geoff Dunbar, and children's book artist Philip Ardagh have created a beautiful book with an ever-timely message.". There's a lot missing in that description, such as the surprising death of Wirral's mother, Sugartail, at the beginning of the book. Or any vegan message.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. Alicia Silverstone was on the show as a spokesperson for the health benefits and other benefits of veganism. And I won't say she's not a "real vegan," as I'm not the vegan police. Nothing wrong with any of that.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Coetzee The Lives of Animals veganism. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language Amy Gutman animal rights J.M. There is story. There is passion. There is pain. And we need all of these entry points. We need all of the help we can get.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Those are the final words of the book. We can stop using animals and "allocate resources" to educate Homo sapiens worldwide to change their relationship to the animals around them. Cultural attitudes about animals can change. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. People are talking.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Jeff Masson's new book didn't cause me to unravel, but I did learn a lot about our friends and coevolvers, Canis familiaris. This Masson book ( here are all of them) is for Benjy, who was supposed to be a service dog but who was, shall we say, less than enthusiastic about the career choice that was made for him.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan. But other than multi-pronged, multi-media, persistence, I have no idea what will be necessary to make most people go vegan. Yes, I see on Twitter that someone read Eating Animals and went vegan that day. But I don't think that's the norm.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Also, if, like me, you know someone who appreciates the things we do with language to mask the reality of our behavior, this is a great book. Not great, but good.

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