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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

Critter News

July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. .

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation. by Tim Birkhead. Size: 6.13 Illus: 63 color + 70 b/w illus.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.