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Newsweek Editor Goes Vegan

Animal Person

There's already a fairly large number of comments that raise the usual topics against vegans and veganism and I didn't see any Animal Person readers in there, though there's no law that says you have to use the same username everywhere so that might not be evidence of anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Should the Military Force Protect the Environment?

Critter News

In response to both kinds of scenarios, some have begun to raise the possibility of an "eco-intervention," analogous to humanitarian interventions. Tags: military force environment. Or, as resources grow scarcer, one nation's overexploitation of a forest or river could lead to dire consequences for other countries.

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On Mixing Bowl and Vegan Education

Animal Person

Next month, Meredith will begin an aggressive marketing campaign for Mixing Bowl, start a companion print magazine—and start launching cookbook authors through the site. Tags: Activism Ethics Film Meredith Corporation Mixing Bowl Social network service Veganism. And the same is certainly true of my husband.

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Year of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

Kevin Ebi is a professional nature photographer whose work has appeared in a variety of magazines and books, including National Wildlife , Smithsonian , Outdoor Photographer , and Lonely Planet and Moon travel guides. It really looked like a game of tag. I’m running a crowdfunding campaign now to raise funds to publish it.

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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." And when that happens, you know what direction you're headed: the justification of taking the lives of sentient nonhumans to please the palates of humans.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

It's too bad that Latimer's presentation is so obnoxious, as even when he raises what might be valid points, he makes you want to disagree with him. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. And one of that handful is the environment. There's nothing like a mirror to set you straight. Happy Mother's Day!

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

And fun and food are, I’d submit, not enough reason to fell a bird in which only one in three pairs manages to raise a single chick each season; a bird that has captured the imagination and hearts of tens of thousands of people, whose sonorous purr floats down from on high like the voice of a pterosaur. It has not. Thank you for your efforts.

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