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Two New Vegan Blogs
Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs – check them out and subscribe! First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know as the person behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Meat Market: Animals, Ethic, and Money, and The Ultimate Vegan…
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Save that One, Screw the Rest?
It never ceases to amaze me how, when one cow (or goat, or pig, or chicken, or turkey) escapes from the slaughterhouse, the public at large want to save him/her, but then don’t recognize how their own eating habits put said animal in that position in the first place. This week, Molly (so named by…
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Antibiotics usage in Factory Farming
Interesting that this appeared in the Huffington Post just before the H1N1 stories starting popping up: Enemies of the People, by Carl Pope. In it, he describes the efforts of Louise Slaughter (we’ll ignore the irony of her name) to pass legislation in congress to “ban the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock.” The issue?…
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Swine Flu and Factory Farming
As H1N1, aka the flu formerly known as swine flu, aka “The Other White Death,” continues to dominate the public media, it’s important to recognize the contribution factory farming (and animal agriculture in general) makes to these superviruses. Here’s video from CNN with Dr. Michael Greger from the HSUS: Embedded video from CNN Video Related…
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Film Screening: Seeing Through the Fence
(Guess it’s BVS week here at Goatless) This Tuesday, May 12th, the Boston Vegetarian Society is hosting a screening of Seeing Through the Fence, a film by Eleni Vlachos (who blogs at Binge Cafe), including a pre-screening vegan buffet with the the filmmaker herself.
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Save the Date: Boston Vegetarian Food Festival
The Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (truly it’s almost entirely a vegan food festival – though each year it seems at least one vendor manages to push the edge of that definition) is an experience not to be missed: tons of organizations and activists to meet, loads of new companies and products to discover, a wealth…
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The First Dog
This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (And yes, I have purebred dogs myself, but no, I wouldn’t get another dog from a breeder. Our next family member will be from a shelter or a rescue, it might even…
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Does One-Click Activism Work?
Via Erik Marcus I came to an excellent blog post by Mark Hawthorne, who takes on a question I’ve often wondered about: Is One-Click Activism Effective? You’ve almost certainly seen one-click activism: you get an email, click on a link, and send a pre-written message to a pre-selected legislator or other politician. It’s activism made…
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Bittman (sort of) gets it
Mark Bittman’s a columnist for the NY times, and is getting lots of attention recently for his new book Food Matters. He’s essentially urging a plant-based diet, though he consistently stops short of encouraging people to go fully vegan as that would be “difficult” and/or “unpopular.” I’ve also never seen him really acknowledge – perhaps…
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New Blog from Farm Sanctuary: Making Hay
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
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Teabaggin’
Doesn’t anyone at Fox News know how to use the Urban Dictionary?
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PCRM on Food Subsidies
Jo forwarded this to me a while back but I never got around to blogging it: Health Versus Pork: Congress Debates the Food Bill. It originally appeared in the Autumn 2007 Good Medicine magazine from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, but the primary point it makes is still valid today: government food subsidies are…
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All the more reason to love DrupalCon
DrupalCon, the semi-annual (twice a year) conference of Drupal developers, is coming up next week in Washington DC. Filling out my profile, I was delighted to see these options: Happy to see conference organizers recognize the need for and provide better food options!
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Spam Haiku (Well, Almost)
Got this today via email: Greetings. advantage “true toys” consequently not protected Sincerely, Cameron Bunch. If you reformat it ever so slightly it’s a near-haiku (5-10-6, or 5-10-7 if you say “cam-er-on” rather than “camron”): Greetings. advantage “true toys” consequently not protected Sincerely, Cameron Bunch You can make it a Haiku easily: Greetings. advantage “true…
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Yes We Can (Use PowerPoint)
(via BoingBoing) As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a big fan of Edward Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (though I didn’t know a second edition was out). In honor, then, of inauguration day, here’s Obama’s…
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Audubon Magazine on Diet and Global Warming
(Via Vegan.com) Excellent piece by Mike Tidwell in Audubon Magazine: The Low Carbon Diet. I was a bit concerned when Tidwell opened with the usual “confession” that so many apologias for meat eating use, a trope I’m tired of reading: Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital…
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Hold the Mayo, Thank the Clinic
(Via Veggie Going Vegan via Veggie Chic) Very happy to see this great set of resources from the Mayo Clinic – Vegetarian Diet: How to Get the Best Nutrition – which begins: Adopting a healthy vegetarian diet isn’t as simple as scraping meat off your plate and eating what’s left. You need to take extra…
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Mercy Now
Some days it’s really difficult to understand the depths of human cruelty and hatred. Today just became one of those days for me, as I read about the recent attack on Mercy For Animals founder Nathan Runkle. From the press release issued by MFA: Nathan Runkle, the 24-year old openly gay founder and Executive Director…
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