Social Gray Whales and The Wauchula Woods Accord

Yesterday while driving home from work in the District, I listened to Terry Gross’ “Fresh Air” program on NPR. I listen to her show almost every day on my drive home. Her guests included Charles Siebert, who writes about animals and, most recently, wrote a front page story for New York Times magazine about some [...]

Molly the Cow Makes a Run for Freedom

This story appears in the NY Times and on numerous blogs – you’d have to be a corpse not to have read it yesterday. Here’s Karen’s alert: The Thursday May 7 New York Times has a cheering story about a cow who escaped from a slaughterhouse. I will write a little more about that below, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today Show Interviews Sea Shepherd’s Capt. Paul Watson

Here’s a recent DawnWatch Alert about one of the organizations I support monthly and appreciate greatly, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Check out their great new Web site with RSS and e-newsletter subscriptions! On Thursday, October 30, Captain Paul Watson, and Executive Director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Kim McCoy, were interviewed on NBC’s [...]

Last Night’s Book Reading with Karen Dawn

Yesterday evening I attended a book reading event at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary featuring Karen Dawn, author of Thanking the Monkey. If you read my blog every now and then, you’ve noticed that I often post DawnWatch Alerts. Karen’s compiled animal rights news and sent it via e-mail to readers for about nine years now. [...]

Local News Covers Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary; “Thanking the Monkey”

Got this DawnWatch Alert last night and want to remind you that Karen Dawn will read from her book “Thanking the Monkey” at Poplar Springs on August 18. The event starts at 5 p.m. with a tour of the sanctuary, then a book reading with vegan snacks and wine around 7 p.m. Yesterday, Tuesday August [...]

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