The following essay was written by Tim Gier in a blog post dated August, 2010. What does it matter? With all the pain and suffering in the world, where children go hungry and women are beaten and raped, what does it matter that McDonald’s serves hamburgers and Red Lobster filets flounders? Where on the scales [...]
Originally published in This Crazy, Sexy Life e-letter, June 2009 We live on the road. For fourteen years now Madeleine and I have been plying North America’s highways in our ’86 diesel pick-up that pulls our solar-powered fifth wheel “rolling home” across this beautiful land. Although we only drive about fifteen to twenty thousand miles [...]
The following essay is from Logos Journal issue 4.2 Where does all the war, racism, terrorism, violence, and cruelty that’s so endemic to human civilization come from? Why do humans exploit and massacre each other so regularly? Why is our species so violence-prone? To answer these questions we would do well to think about our [...]
Throughout our history, human beings have killed millions of our own kind in the name of power, politics, and religion. Over this same period, people have also killed billions of animals in the name of food, clothing, science, entertainment, and convenience. As we look around the world today, we can’t help but notice that violence [...]
“The decision to eat or not to eat animal products should not be regarded as a mere personal ‘food’ choice. This perpetuates the view of animals as material objects, rather than as fellow creatures with precious lives of their own. It hides the fact that in choosing to consume animal products one chooses a life [...]