Christmas 2011

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 [...]

What’s Really Happening in the Gulf?

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 [...]

Barrel Oak Winery Fund Raiser for GulfAid

Here’s a little somethin’ we’ve been working on for a couple of months and if you’re in the National Capital Area, please join us! BOW is kid- and dog-friendly so bring your kids and fur kids and a picnic and have a great time raising money for people and wildlife on the oil-damaged Gulf Coast. [...]

NRDC: Stop Shell Oil From Drilling in the Arctic Ocean

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Jack Hanna Misinforms Anderson Cooper On BP Gulf Clean-up

I’m sure some of you will be surprised to learn that Jack Hanna is no friend to animals as we’ve seen him on countless TV programs pretending otherwise. But read on and learn more about his thinly-veiled facade of wildlife protector. As I’ve written here many times, you can’t protect wildlife if you still eat [...]

DawnWatch: BP Oil Disaster

A really good round-up post by Karen Dawn for her DawnWatch media alert on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, where I grew up in a small, coastal Florida town. This sickens me more than I can say without becoming profane. The biggest news for animals over the last week has been the BP [...]

My God, What Have We Done?

Y’all are aware by now of the horrendous amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. What we don’t know is just how much damage this man-made disaster will do to ecosystems, wildlife, and even humans. But I can tell you this, it’s going to make the Exxon-Valdez spill look like a day in [...]

Burn Out, Burn In, Burn Up, Burn Down

There might be one or two people who still regularly check this blog and they might have noticed the lack of content in the past seven or eight months. Or not. I really don’t know. What I do know is that I can’t muster the energy or interest to post here like I once did. [...]

NY Times Covers Waste from Dairy Farms on Front Page

Here’s a recent DawnWatch Alert that’s worth sharing with all your dairy-loving friends: Yesterday’s Washington Post report on the livestock industry’s devastating effect on antibiotic effectiveness is followed today (Friday, September 18) with a front page New York Times story on the industry’s impact on the safety of drinking water supplies. The article, by Charles [...]

The Age of Stupid … Is NOW

The Age of Stupid premieres in the U.S. on September 21 and elsewhere on the planet on September 22. I have my tickets for the U.S. premiere! From the Web site: “The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars [...]

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