Guest Blogger: Creature Talk on Vegan Awakening

I love to read Creature Talk because Mindy articulates beautifully what I feel but somehow cannot express. Her post today is so outstanding that I asked permission to post it here so that five or six more people can read it. I strongly suggest that you add Creature Talk to your daily required blog reading! [...]

Fight Global Warming – With Your Fork

This story broke a few days ago but I’ve been busy annoying people over at Wildlife Direct and shopping at Tractor Supply (for Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary – I haven’t suddenly gone tractor). Audubon Magazine published a story written by Mike Tidwell about the undeniable connection between eating meat and human-cause global warming pollution. It’s [...]

DawnWatch: Elephants On CBS and Hens On ABC

OK, now that we’re all back to work and back to normal (the holidays are like stepping into some freaky, uncomfortable alternate universe for two weeks), here’s a great DawnWatch Alert to start off your New Year’s blog reading. Enjoy! It’s the New Year! How great to be able to get DawnWatch rolling with two [...]

DawnWatch: Animal Rights Year-End Round Up

Karen Dawn puts it all together and ties it with a nice bow. Read, enjoy, get active. It is Christmas, which means before I go have a beautiful veggie meal with my loved ones and then retire for a week, I get to send out my round up of the major animal stories in the [...]

Christmas

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 a little more time than this time is all we have do you remember the time we and all [...]

Rescued Chickens at Farm Sanctuary Need Your Help

I got this alert from Farm Sanctuary and I’m passing it along because it’s not too late to stop buying shit that no one needs and that ends up entombed in a landfill. Why not make a donation to help our non-human animal partners survive and thrive on the planet we share? Farm Sanctuary has [...]

To Make You Smile: Bears, Gorillas, and Cows

If you read my blog from time to time, then you know I’m a volunteer at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. One of my volunteer colleagues, Deb, posted this video of the farm, narrated by a 5-year-old boy and filmed about two years ago. Enjoy. Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, are also dear to my [...]

Factory Farm Pollution is Major News

Many thanks to the ever-vigilant Karen Dawn for this week’s DawnWatch Alert about pollution from factory farms. In addition to all the great press this critical issue is getting, here’s a story about a massive pork recall in Ireland – massive because the government there has recalled ALL the pork sold since September. Seems it [...]

Largest U.S. Chicken Processor Files Chapter 11

It makes my day when I learn that a big ol’ factory farm files bankruptcy. Pilgrim’s Pride “had fought to avoid a voluntary filing after being exposed to the combination of weakening consumer demand and poultry prices, which left it unable to pass on soaring feed costs in the first half of the year. Its [...]

NY Times Covers Prop 2 and Wayne Pacelle of HSUS

Here’s a recent DawnWatch Alert for your enjoyment! Over the last few days the New York Times has paid some much needed attention to the plight of animals used for food. The Friday October 24 edition included a lengthy piece headed, “A California Ballot Measure Offers Rights for Farm Animals.” And today’s October 26 New [...]

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