Happy Friday! I hope you all have something fun planned for the weekend. Here in Seattle we’re on a streak of perfect spring weather. It’s been sunny and in the 70s all week. Eric and I have made two trips to the dog park this week, done some yard work and plan to do more […]
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Anarchism & the Media, Revisited
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks with not so many blog posts (obviously). I just got back from Boston where I attended (and presented at) the Navigating a Multispecies World conference at Harvard. It was a really good conference and I’ll try to share some thoughts on that at a later date, but for now […]
Top Ten Thoughts for Living Lighter on the Earth
Happy Earth Day! And a reminder that Earth Day should be EVERY DAY! As (vegan) cheesy as that might sound, one day a year to celebrate/protect/think about the environment is just not going to cut it. Not even close. Following up on the “Top Ten” lists I promised to start posting regularly, I decided to post the […]
Shiitake Noodle Soup
After a visit to the naturopath earlier this week, I’ve been assigned to do an elimination diet. First step: eliminate ALL grains, except for rice for three weeks. Today is day 4 and, honestly, once I hid all the bread items in the house in the freezer so they weren’t staring at me every time […]
News Recap
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks of travel, recuperation, school work, etc. Having just returned from L.A. for the annual Association of American Geographers meeting, I thought I’d just recap a number of news items. AG-GAG LAWS The most relevant for animal advocates is the increasingly public flurry of debate about ag-gag laws. Will […]
Top Ten TV Shows
I hope everyone is having a good weekend! I thought I’d start a series of “Top Tens” as a kind of lighter, fun change of pace for the blog. Plus, I thought it would be a great way to hear back from you all about your favorites in the comments section, so we can all […]
Health Trouble-Shooting and Veganism
I heard Melanie Joy (author of Why we love dogs, eat pigs and wear cows) speak a couple of times at the national Animal Rights conference last summer in Alexandria, VA. During one of her talks she asked for hands of those in the audience who had ever pretended not to be sick or downplayed their […]
CFP: Critical Animal Geographies edited volume
Good morning, Monday readers! Today I want to share a call for papers I’ve been working on with my colleague and friend, Rosemary-Claire Collard — for a Critical Animal Geographies edited scholarly anthology. Please consider submitting an abstract for consideration and it would be great if you could spread the word if you’re so inclined! Call for Contributors to Critical […]
Gates’ Vision of the Future of Food
No doubt some of you have already seen the news that Bill Gates is advocating plant-based “meat” alternatives as a solution to the environmental drain on resources by the global production of animal products. If you haven’t seen it, you can see the snazzy slideshow here. On GatesNotes.com, the Future of Food is pitched in these terms: “Meat […]
Welcoming Spring!
Happy first day of spring (yesterday)! In Seattle, spring has officially sprung. Daffodils are bright and beautiful, the cherry trees are pink and white and breathtaking, and the daphne makes the air smell sweet and flowery. The weather has been a little all over the place — sunny one moment, raining the next — and really […]
