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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. I say they were butchered, face-off. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind. One may say so.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Ridicule of Vegetarians

Animal Ethics

In an ordinary household every possible influence, social and domestic, is brought to bear on the heretic who abstains from flesh foods. Well, so be it!