Get hooked on compassion, not fishing

by 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…

All bets are off; steer clear of horse racing

Two years after Eight Belles’ fatal breakdown during the Kentucky Derby, many of us still remember the heartbreak of seeing that beautiful filly lying in the dirt at Churchill Downs, her ankles shattered beyond repair…

Why I protest animal research

I worked for two years undercover inside Oregon Health & Science University’s primate research center, and what I saw inside that lab changed me forever. I came to recognize the social, intelligent monkeys at the facility — more than 4,000 remain there today — as individuals, and that they were being treated like little more [...]

A Winning Issue for Obama in 2010: Factory Farm Reform

If President Obama really wants to champion a bipartisan issue, one that might appeal to tea-partying conservatives and — in the wake of the Gulf spill — jittery eco-liberals alike, he should consider tackling the worst excesses of industrial animal agriculture, better known as factory farming…

Homo rapiens be damned: Savagery is not programmed into our DNA

BY JASON MILLER. Purveyors of pop culture, indigenous movement leaders, renowned academics, literary giants, and powerful philosophers alike have admonished us that we humans need to change our evil ways…

Whose Skin Are You In?

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. [...]

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