The following essay by Angel Flinn comes from the Gentle World website. A great many people become vegetarian in response to a strong sense that animals shouldn’t be mistreated on factory farms, or that they simply should not be killed for food. However, many individuals who eschew meat out of concern for animal interests continue [...]
The following is an excerpt from Thanking The Monkey: Rethinking The Way We Treat Animals by Karen Dawn What would you do if your neighbor kept her puppy permanently caged, never letting him out to exercise or relieve himself? And what if that cage was a narrow crate and the puppy was chained by the [...]
The vegan is acutely aware that when most people stop eating meat, they increase their egg and cheese consumption markedly. I was personally a prime example of this: it was after becoming a vegetarian, not as a meat-eater, that I could go into ecstasy over a cheddar omelette. I probably know every eatery in Chicago [...]
I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heartbreaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients [...]
The following essay first appeared in The Huffington Post. I’m a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as property. They have few, if any, rights and are subject to exploitation, indignities, and violence on a [...]
“…the production of milk and eggs involves as much cruelty and killing as meat production does: surplus cockerels and calves, as well as spent hens and cows, have been slaughtered and otherwise brutally destroyed through the ages. Historically, there have been two main solutions to the problem of unwanted bull calves: club them to death [...]