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From the Animal Rights Action Network re: Greyhounds

Animal Person

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Donate to ARAN, make checks or postal orders payable to Animal Rights Action Network and mail to the address above, thank you. "The

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The Animals We Use

Animal Person

That's what I do, and it works, as in--people go vegan and stay vegan. Thinking Critically About The Animals We Use can be printed on one 11 x 17 sheet and folded in half and isn't designed to make anyone into an activist. And that disconnect is deadly and reeks of injustice. -.

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Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home Coming to Orlando

Animal Person

With strikingly honest interviews and rare footage demonstrating the emotional lives and intense family bonds of animals most often viewed as living commodities, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME shatters stereotypical notions of farmers, farm life, and perhaps most surprisingly, farm animals themselves.

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. What about the individuals right there in the laboratory? Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel. But that's utilitarian thinking. Don't those individuals matter?

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Eat right. If you are already a vegetarian, make this the year that you decide to go vegan. What counts as eating right? If you are serious about losing weight and improving your health, try out a cruelty-free vegan diet for three months. Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. Get in better shape/become more healthy.

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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. I do what I do because it's the right thing to do--not because I want a reward or fear punishment. How do you deal with this and diffuse the anger and sadness that you must feel?

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

The breast milk of vegan mothers is fully nutritious for infants, and contains the full compliment of energy, protein, and vitamins, needed for the rapid growth of life's first half year. Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother.

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