EDITORIAL

by Neel Mukherjee. “I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that”…  Read More →

An interview with Jason Miller exploring radical dissent and animal liberation. “Frank Joseph Smecker: You founded Thomas Paine’s Corner as an act of commitment to ‘ending the unnecessary suffering of oppressed and exploited sentient beings and to the total liberation of human animals, nonhuman animals, and the Earth.’ Can you... [Read more of this review]

by Lisa Selvaggio. “There is the one caught in the trap, its leg held hard, unable to break free and in excruciating pain. The breath, the life, the walking in the wilderness called home, the pulse, the blood, and then snap! The pain, the confusion, the agony, the blood that spills out”…  Read More →

by Sharon Seltzer. “Even as protesters lined the entrances to several conservation areas and last minute petitions were being sent to government agencies, the mass capture of 2,500 wild mustangs in the northern part of Nevada began on Monday, December 28, 2009″…  Read More →

When I was young, I would often spend the weekend at my grandmother’s house. On the way in, on Friday night, she would lift me from the ground in one of her fire-smothering hugs. And on the way out, on Sunday afternoon, I was again taken into the air. It wasn’t until years later that I realized she was weighing me…  Read More →