article thumbnail

Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

Animal Person

You can't pull the god card to claim superiority over the rest of us so you demonize the consumption of animal products. You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals.

Vegan 100
article thumbnail

The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. We have a lot of source material.

2014 160
article thumbnail

Ways to Promote Alliance Politics

Animal Person

Meanwhile, I'm sure that writers whose style I have a problem with will say, "I don't have the time or the inclination to write the sort of dispassionate, tepid prose you prefer while tens of billions of sentient nonhumans are being enslaved and slaughtered for no good reason." And I understand that point.