Originally posted on December 25, 2008. Nothing has changed since then – life for non-humans continues to worsen … they’re starting to open up the sky they’re starting to reach down through and it feels like we’re living in that split-second of a car crash and time is slowing down and if we only had [...]
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Yeah, that doesn’t come as news to most of us but does it have to be that way? How many of you live in what I call the Vegan-free Zone? No vegan restaurants, no vegan-accommodating restaurants, no vegan grocery stores, no vegan bakeries. So where do you go? The nearest Whole Foods? That’s my option [...]
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One of the joys of volunteering on weekends at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary is getting to know a particular resident and then sponsoring him or her. Last May a piglet found his way to the sanctuary after a very rough time. Truman, as he was named, was found by animal control running along MacArthur Boulevard [...]
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Honestly, I don’t get the whole Christmas consumerism thing. I don’t understand why any rational person would stand outside in the dark and cold for hours waiting for a store to open. They wait so they can buy stuff that will be discarded or sent to a landfill in about six months. All that energy, [...]
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… and the chickens and peacocks and goats and sheep and ducks and geese and pigs and horses and mules and cows … This will be my third Thanksgiving For the Turkeys at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Poolesville, Maryland. It will also be the first year that I’m able to stay and volunteer for [...]
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Thanks to DawnWatch for this report on whales in captivity (photos added by me): Having just arrived home from my New Zealand and Australia trip, with no time yet to start to play any catch-up, I got a Facebook message from Australian animal advocate Wendy Shaw letting me know that the Australian “60 Minutes” had [...]
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So I was writing these weekly updates about BP’s horrendous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for another Web site as part of a charity contest (we won, yay, GulfAid got a lotta money), then the contest ended, I left the Web site, but I still want to write the updates. I’ll try to [...]
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I hate typing those words. I hate knowing that sometimes it’s true. Yesterday as I started down the one-and-a-half lane road to the sanctuary where I volunteer, I saw a small fox limping on the side of the road. I stopped my car and the fox crossed behind me. As he limped closer to my [...]
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This DawnWatch Alert features two stories aired on mainstream media last Friday night. Two terrific stories aired on US mainstream media on Friday night, July 30, which in this age of web viewing we can still watch and let the media know how much the coverage was appreciated. CBS Evening News did a sweet story [...]
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