Animal Person
JANUARY 1, 2010
I've written about my ambivalence regarding "pet" ownership/guardianship/insert-whatever-term-you're-comfortable-with, and also about my strong belief in helping individuals, but I don't recall addressing whether the having of pets is not vegan. I remember the first time I read an article by a prominent vegan--maybe it was David Cantor ?--who
Animal Person
JULY 22, 2009
Kelly wondered whether the term "vegan" is " worth fighting for " given the latest trend of seemingly oxymoronish (waiting for that one to hit Webster's) terminology from the mouths of people who want to find a way to use animals, yet make it appear that they're not. Is vegan a diet ? I'd rather trap a feral cat and have her spayed.
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Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.
Animal Person
OCTOBER 14, 2011
She's napping right now, diaper free. Or the cat. I mention this because all too often people surrender their dogs--or even cats--once they have children. I may be a vegan and an atheist, but I'm really just a parent doing the best I can to give my child the best life possible. Or any other child.
Animal Person
MARCH 18, 2010
When referring to cats, dogs and horses of unknown sex, the children would randomly assign sex, with the conventionally "prettier" animals being called "she." I remember that as a child I called all cats "she" and dogs "he" in the absence of a name. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? That makes sense to me.
Animal Person
MAY 24, 2010
And how, for the love of God, people have got so stop saying things like Vegan Before 6! See Vegan Between Meals for more). I wrote about atheism, diabetes (which I do think is important and stay tuned for a video about canine diabetes and how to test blood sugar), dog food, feral cats, and of course, greyhound racing.
Animal Person
APRIL 24, 2009
mikey, my stance can be seen in the posts about Project Treadstone (and if you type Project Treadstone into the Google Search box just below my half-blind, diabetic greyhound, Violet Rays, on the right, you'll get a dozen more posts). How contradictory is that? So mikey, I agree with you in theory. Hence, it's a Gray Matter.)
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