Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. Where do people get that idea?

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

We need language that doesn't support a divide between "pet" animals and everyone else. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. We need to start referring to animals as "he" and "she," even if we might not be correct. I'm a terrible fiction writer.

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