COMMENTARY
Get hooked on compassion, not fishingby Paula Moore. Anglers across the country are being encouraged to take advantage of states’ upcoming license-free days by introducing friends and family members to their favorite blood sport. Sorry, does that sound harsh?…
Spiritual determination finds ways to overcome obstacles and adversity
by Jason Miller. While I recognize that there are many atheists in the Animal Rights Movement who adhere to veganism, and that people of many different religions and philosophies advocate and fight for nonhuman animals, my personal spirituality is the backbone of my veganism and my activism…
…While the Oil Gushes
by Tina Dupuy. The term “deep water” usually means you’re in trouble and “horizon” is what lies ahead. So the ill-fated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, is aptly named. Doom has arrived on our shores and our prospects are tacky with tar balls…
Memorial Day for Animals
By Will Tuttle, Ph.D., World Peace Diet. Here’s an ironic 3-way conjunction: Memorial Day; the recent release of the undercover Conklin Dairy video footage; and the spewing volcano of oil deep in the Gulf. Memorial Day is a time to honor those serving in war, harmed by war, killed by war…
Whales and dolphins – ‘resource’ or ‘right’?
New research is showing that whales and dolphins possess intelligence and culture more complex that we had previously assumed, says Margi Prideaux. And, she argues, this raises anew the question of how we should relate to them – including whether it is ever right to hunt them…
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ARTICLES
Putting a Face on the Gulf Oil LeakThe oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico finally has a face. Or, rather, faces — at once primordially familiar and yet utterly...
Animal suffering in laboratories: A failure to care
By Alka Chandna, Ph.D. Animal experimenters from Canada’s McGill University recently determined that mice — like...
Cow Whipping: How violent can a farmer get with his livestock?
An animal rights group has released a video showing workers at an Ohio dairy farm punching cows, stabbing them with a pitchfork,...
Plaintiffs With Fins? The Legal Rights of Oil Spill’s Animal Victims
By Dionne Searcey. A story in The Seattle Times today about an Exxon Valdez survivor, an otter that had been sickly for years...
Perdue’s “Humanely-Raised” Chicken: The Latest Misleading Food Claim
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the supermarket, another food manufacturer has decided to slap a misleading...
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NATIONS
It Won’t Save the WhalesBY LATIMES.COM. The moratorium on commercial whaling that took effect in 1986 has been one of the most successful international...
The War Against the Horse
BY DEANNE STILLMAN. It is a sad fact of American life that this horse killing is not an anomaly. In fact, such episodes have...
Cow Dancing
BY LOIS FLYNNE. Dancer came to me when she was six going on seven. For the first six years of her life she had had no name...
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