Archive for November, 2009
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Submitted by Animal Person
You’ll get the irony of this fuzzy bit of culinary activism (vegan vanilla cake with strawberry filling and vegan cream cheese frosting) taken in my suburban home with the reminder of ahimsa in the background if you choose to read the remarkably tame and informative “13 Ways to Promote Alliance Politics and [...]
Why Do We Always See These Types of Video From China? - When Does the Boycott Start?
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Happy Thanksgiving!!
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Your ever-faithful blogger is blogging on her day off. This shows her true dedication to the cause of turkeys. Now I shall stop referring to myself in the third person and start posting pictures of turkeys. You can see some of the wild turkeys who live near the sanctuary in this [...]
As long as it’s legal, who am I to judge?
Submitted by Animal Person
Billie commented on a bull riding post from January of this year, writing: “And whos [sic] to judge someone for what they enjoy as long as it is legal!” (I had condemned bull riding and stand behind that.)
Let’s deconstruct. There are at least two things going on here:
1) If it’s legal it’s [...]
Resources - Antibiotics
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Animal Place is compiling resources on farmed animals, from antibiotic-resistance to behavior to environmental degradation. This post includes information on antibiotic resistance and its ties to the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture. Posting these resources does not indicate endorsement of authors, organizations or all the content therein. This is not [...]
Vegan Thanksgiving
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
I count myself one of the lucky, every Thanksgiving for the past few years has been vegan. No more worries over how I should react when the body came out. No more gag reflex responses every time someone mentioned how tasty that body was.
Sadly, this is not true for most people. [...]
Animal Place Holiday Shopping
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Holiday Shopping at Animal Place
This holiday season give the gift of compassion and love with one of the many gift options available through Animal Place. Every purchase you make helps feed the animals, provide much-needed medical care, and allows us to continue our life-saving work.
Share your compassion this year by buying [...]
Country View Farmily Farms - Mercy for Animals investigates
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Mercy for Animals has once again given us access to the inner world of farming, and it isn’t pretty. Country View Family Farms markets itself as a coalition of family farmers that infuses the local community with $12 million a year and offers a sustainable method of raising animals for their [...]
Willy the goat moseys
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
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Smattering Sunday
Submitted by Animal Person
CharlesCamp1 from Mary Martin on Vimeo (which it looks like I’m going to have to upgrade to improve the picture).
Dr. Newest Vet sent this to me from yesterday’s day at “camp” for Charles. His gait has improved dramatically from only two sessions of cool laser-physical therapy-underwater treadmill. I was told that 10 [...]
Preparing for the Onslaught
Submitted by Animal Person
My husband has two friends (a male/female couple) who are transitioning from vegetarian to vegan and I also have two friends (both women) who are transitioning from omnivore and all are dreading Thanksgiving. The conversations with family and friends have already begun about “Turkey Day.” And of course if you correct someone [...]
Update on Charles, Violet Rays & Emily
Submitted by Animal Person
This is my darling 83-pound red fawn greyhound, Charles Hobson Booger, III who has been lame for about a year. (Click on the photo for a much better version.) Our latest attempt to make him a bit more comfortable and perhaps improve his condition is the cool laser followed by some [...]
On “Compassion,” “Nonviolence” and “Justice”
Submitted by Animal Person
Why all the quotation marks? Because I’ve been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking–and languaging–regarding animal rights.
Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use “compassion” frequently. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. “Compassion” has been so diluted that most people don’t bat an eyelash [...]
On Radical Abolitionism and Guilt
Submitted by Animal Person
Frequently, when I read Steve Best, I feel guilty.
“He’s talking about me,” I say to myself. Though I’m not a Francione-style abolitionist, and much of what Best writes isn’t directed at me, plenty of what he writes is.
And I don’t mean me personally (though I probably should).
The latest example of a Best [...]
On Changing Tastes
Submitted by Animal Person
Our guest this weekend, Jackie, is transitioning to veganism. Her hurdle, you might not be surprised to learn, is cheese made from the milk of cows. She eats cow cheese daily.
Wrongheadedly, I was excited to make her nachos-her favorite snack-with Daiya cheddar cheese. I was completely confident that she’d instantly get over [...]
November is . . . Awareness Month
Submitted by Animal Person
My inbox this month has informed me that November is Vegan Awareness Month!
And Diabetes Awareness Month.
And Adoption Awareness Month.
Who knew November was such a potentially-informative month?
Here’s my attempt to bring it all together in an Animal Person post.
I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food (Natural [...]
On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux
Submitted by Animal Person
Last week I ventured a couple of hours north to see Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home at the Orlando Film Festival. The turnout was fantastic and the Q&A had to be cut short so the audience for the next film could be ushered in.
This version of the film is different, and lighter, [...]
What’s Happened To Us
Some of you have read my blog about my little dog, and the cost of just trying to keep her alive, which was beyond what I could afford. But as I find myself trying to figure out why I’m so lost, really what’s happened to us as people who just care about ourselves. I am [...]
Slaughterhouse owner pleads no contest
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Last year, Santa Cruz County Animal Services director, Todd Stosuy noticed a cow with a broken horn spraying blood a foot in the air. The shocking sight led him to an even more tragic situation - a custom slaughterhouse. Goats, rabbits, pigs, chickens and other animals subsisted off of bread and [...]
Bovine Introductions
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Elsa cried all night. Since she was so stressed, we decided to let her out today rather than wait a few more weeks. When the gate opened, Elsa immediately left her pasture and started exploring. Nicholas saw her and made a beeline in her direction. Love at first sight! According to [...]
On Not Eating Animals
Submitted by Animal Person
Chris from Beijing wasn’t able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer’s sequel to Eating Animals . . . Not Eating Animals.
Though I haven’t been able to surf the Internet that much recently, I have found it [...]
Allegations of dogs starved to death at a Memphis Animal Shelter
More than two weeks ago, sheriffs deputies executed a search warrant at a Memphis area animal shelter. Reportedly, photographs taken by a whistle blower let in part to the raid. Photographs of one dog in particular sparked public outrage. The photographs show a seemly healthy young female mixed breed puppy when it first arrived at [...]
Meet Elsa, the newest bovine resident!
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Several months ago, we received a call from a local school that planned on sending their 15-yr-old Jersey cow to slaughter. The cow had been used as a teaching tool for her entire life, giving birth to nine calves and spending her life at this one farm. We couldn’t let her [...]
Am I Wrong Or Can We Really Do Something
Hi, my name is Jim and I lost a pet this past week and have not been able to stop crying yet. So much to say but can’t, I’m an older male (57) who always thought animals came & went with no thought about them. But as I got older & came to appreciate how [...]
The Giant Pumpkin
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Every day, we receive hundreds of pounds of day-old produce donated by two grocery stores. Yesterday, an employee at one notified us that a 60lb pumpkin had failed to sell and did we want it? Um, do pigs love food? Yes!
Abby, sanctuary supervisor and Louie, animal caregiver, took a picture with [...]
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