In my infinite quest to be The World’s Strangest Person Ever, I have stumbled upon (ok, a friend sent me) an animal rescue website that has webcams on some of the animals who live there! The place is called Longmeadow Rescue Ranch.
Longmeadow Rescue Ranch is haven for hundreds of abused and neglected horses, cows, goats, [...]
Archive for April, 2008
PigCam
Posted in Animal Welfare, Farmed Animals, tagged farm animal rescue, happy farm animals, pigs on April 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
How Did I Get This Way?
Posted in Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Farmed Animals, tagged animal activism, companion animals, decisions, empty cages, Tom Regan on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Lately I’ve been thinking about how differently I viewed the world only 2 years ago. I have always, always loved my dog and my cat and other people’s pets and therefore considered myself an animal lover, but at the same time, I never really thought much about farmed animals. I ate them [...]
Making a Difference
Posted in Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, tagged Animal Cruelty, animal suffering, famous quotes, get involved, make a difference, volunteer on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
~Albert Schweitzer
I think about this a lot. Maybe too much.
Sometimes, even though we all know there is immense suffering in the world, we ignore it. In some ways it’s a defense mechanism – how much suffering can we bear to know about [...]
Baby Steps
Posted in Environmental Concerns, Veganism, tagged eating habits, environment, health, I love my friends on April 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I didn’t become a vegan overnight. I didn’t even become a vegetarian over night. Rather, it was something I thought about for a long time before I actually committed. After mulling it over for the better part of a year, I finally decided to stop eating meat all together in July of [...]
Midwest Animal Advocacy Conference 2008
Posted in Animal Rights, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, tagged animal activism, animal advocacy, animal rights conference, carol adams, events, gene baur, paul shapiro, pictures on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am so excited about an upcoming animal advocacy event scheduled to take place here in the Twin Cities from June 6 – June 8. It’s called Their Lives, Our Voices:
Their Lives, Our Voices 2008 seeks to bring together individuals from across the region for a hands-on, high-quality conference focused on helping animals. Our [...]
Cockfighting Ring Busted in Minnesota
Posted in Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, tagged Animal Cruelty, cockfighting, Humane Society, Minnesota law, St. Paul on April 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This morning on Minnesota Public Radio I heard a story about a local cockfighting operation that was busted in St. Paul. This amazes me. I mean, I know this kind of stuff goes on, I guess, but you don’t think it could be happening at your neighbor’s house or somewhere so close.
According to [...]
Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare
Posted in Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, Veganism, tagged animal suffering, debeaking, health, neutering, Peter Singer, tail docking on April 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Many people confuse the terms “Animal Rights” and “Animal Welfare”. Before I started reading about all of this, I think I just assumed that rights and welfare were the same thing, and I used the terms interchangeably. The truth, however, is that that the two philosophies are strikingly different.
The animal rights philosophy argues that animals [...]
“From Farm to Fork”
Posted in Environmental Concerns, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, Veganism, tagged animal agriculture and the environment, Animal Cruelty, battery cages, environment, gestation crates, pictures, pictures of factory farms on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not long ago I went to a presentation called “From Farm to Fork: The Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture” held at the Bell Museum in Minneapolis. The featured speaker was Gowri Koneswaran, Director of Animal Agricultural Impacts at the Humane Society of the United States. It was a great presentation.
During the first half of [...]
In the Beginning
Posted in Animal Rights, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, Veganism, tagged animal suffering, decisions, questions, vegetarian on April 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A little less than a year ago, I made the decision to become a vegetarian. Bored at work, I had started reading articles online about the horrible animal cruelty that has become so prevalent on America’s factory farms. Having grown up on a small farm in the Midwest, my idea of a cattle farm was vastly [...]
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