Archive for May, 2008
Some animals are more equal than others
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
I was pleasantly surprised upon reading a few comments to the article “Council condemns barbaric attack on dog” in The Times online (May 26), where a few comments from Pierre Agius went beyond the usual concern for only cats and dogs, and spoke of other non-human animals (and I include [...]
Follow-up on Boloco
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
Back in March I wrote about an experience I had at one location of a local restaurant chain called Boloco. Based on events that have occurred since publishing that post, it seemed like it might be useful for me to follow that post up with some more discussion.
My March post was [...]
The plight of non-human refugees
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Following the SPCA’s Barbara Cassar Torreggiani’s letter in yesterday’s The Times, thanking the government for the provision of funds for a neutering campaign and asking for volunteers to assist in the campaign, today’s The Times publishes three letters on the same topic, and also publishes a news item saying that [...]
Hypocrisy and animal advocacy
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
Hypocrisy on the High Seas
In a new article published by the German newspaper, Die Welt, Australian philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer attempts to shift the international debate over whale hunting and slaughter from protecting an endangered species to protecting whales as “social mammals with big brains, capable of enjoying life and [...]
The irrationality of hunters and “mental violence”
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
David Borg Cardona writes another of his series of pro-hunting letters. I shall not reproduce it in full, only because most of it has nothing of interest to animal rights advocates and campaigners. The complete letter, entitled “The rationality of hunting”, may be read in The Times.
However, some of [...]
Chicago’s foie gras ban repealed
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
Foie gras prohibition has been repealed in Chicago, and it comes as no surprise. Mayor Richard Daley was hell-bent on defeating the ban from the get-go.
However, I originally saw the near-unanimous support for this ban among Chicago’s aldermen as an encouraging sign. I supported the campaign at the time, thinking it [...]
Thought for the day - Thoreau
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.” — Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
Are you hacking at branches, or striking at the roots? How?
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What if the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian were true?
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
A simple comment by Fr Joe Borg in his blog post on world poverty, where he wrote that “Some blame corrupt governments in Third World Countries, others blame climate change, still others say that higher standards of living lead more people to eat meat and put more pressure on food [...]
Speciesism of the utmost concern
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Mr David Borg Cardona’s letter in today’s The Times, entitled “Species of ‘least concern’”, is a very good example of the speciesist prejudice that makes it possible for otherwise rational people to find nothing wrong with the totally unnecessary killing of sentient non-human animals.
Mr Borg Cardona writes:
“The letter (The Times, [...]
Abolitionists: Fringe or Core?
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
Background
In its May+June 2008 Reader Letters section, VegNews magazine is taken to task by its activism advisor:
In the recent article about the humanecalifornia.org ballot initiative (”Taking the Initiative,” Jan+Feb 2008) to ban some of the worst confinement practices on factory farms, I was disappointed to see equal weight given to statements [...]
Boston Globe publishes my Eight Belles letter
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
Today the Boston Globe published a letter I wrote in response to the widely-covered Eight Belles “breakdown” at the Kentucky Derby over the weekend. An article in the Globe had only mentioned her injury and death in passing.
My letter is only two short paragraphs, so click through and check it out [...]
Win a vegan cookbook
Submitted by An Animal-Friendly Life
The past three years have seen a number of veg- and animal-related blogs come and go, though I basically lost track of what’s new out there as I got more involved with off-line stuff and cut back my daily posting here. So I’ve only really just had a brief chance this [...]
