What Matters to Animals…

The weekend of June 13th and 14th I went to an animal rights conference in the Twin Cities called Their Lives, Our Voices.  Much like last year, it was awesome.  I took notes and hope to write a few entries on what I learned there.   For now, I’m going to start with the very last [...]

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Sarah Palin “pardons” a turkey…Sort of.

Wow.  I have to say that our nation escaped a complete disaster when we elected the Obama-Biden ticket as opposed to McCain-Palin.  Sarah Palin was recently interviewed at a farm (slaughter-house??) “pardoning” a turkey for Thanksgiving, while right behind her another turkey is meeting its demise–and she could care less.  She’s happy go-lucky the whole [...]

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Somewhat Amusing

Ever since I published a blog post about how eating animals that someone else has slaughtered for you is like hiring a hit-man, I have gotten a lot of traffic from people who have done searches on “hit-man” and “hiring a hit-man”…. You’ll notice that it’s still my top post if you look in the [...]

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Eating Animals You “Love”

Earlier this week, I read this article about a Minnesota farmer, Catherine Friend, who recently wrote a book called The Compassionate Carnivore. I haven’t read the book and don’t plan to, so my critique of it is based on her website and other book reviews I found, but I feel I have a decent idea [...]

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The Simpsons: Apocalypse Cow

I know this is basically un-American to say, but I’m going to say it anyway: I’m not a huge fan of the never-ending TV show “The Simpsons”. I don’t know why, but I just have never been able to get in to it. Sometimes I see it and I think “why don’t I like this [...]

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