animal rights – Serenity in the Storm

Review of ‘Bleating Hearts’ at The Kind Life

Good morning! Today I have a book review of Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering by Mark Hawthorne up at Alicia Silverstone’s site, The Kind Life. I hope you’ll hop on over there to read it. This book is extraordinary. Even as a committed animal advocate, I learned so much from it and […]

6 Fascinating Documentaries

I spent quite a bit of the holiday break (when I wasn’t just working straight through it) watching documentaries. I like watching documentaries for fun because I feel like it’s a chance to relax in front of the television, but it’s still productive because I’m learning something new. I thought I’d share with you some […]

Pints for Pigs Peace!

Okay folks, get ready to have some fun! You won’t want to miss this awesome fundraising event if you’re in or around the Seattle area on January 11, 2014. The lovely Anika over at the Vegan Score blog and I are hard at work organizing Pints for Pigs Peace (benefitting Pigs Peace Sanctuary and the Northwest Animal […]

Help Launch “Food Chain” Newsletter

For the last year, I’ve been working with Food Empowerment Project, helping with writing projects and hearing about the great work they are doing to promote a vegan food justice movement. Food Empowerment Project is an amazing organization and they are now asking for your help (and so am I) to launch their brand […]

Calling All Vegans! Letters to a New Vegan Looking for Submissions

Today I want to let you all know about a fantastic book project — Letters to a New Vegan. This call for submission has been making the rounds, but there is still time to submit a letter for consideration. Melissa Tedrowe, of the lovely blog Mending Creation is heading up this project. Read on for […]

Concerned about animal suffering? Do something!

In the face of stories like the calf at auction from earlier this week, it can be easy to feel helpless and overwhelmed by the enormity of animal suffering in the world. To end the week on a positive note, I thought I’d compile some ideas for getting involved to help animals. Last weekend, Serenity […]

Raising Children and Animal Activism (Part Two)

Continuing the conversation about the choice to have children from Part One, I wanted to write a post specifically about having children and animal activism. I was at a NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) meeting this weekend and one of the speakers asked us to remember that we can all make an effort to be […]

Voting for Justice?

I hope you all are planning to get out and VOTE today! If you haven’t voted yet, read this later and get your behind to the polls! And I hope you’ll think about equality and justice for all while you’re there. These last few weeks in my “Animals, Ethics, and Food” class, we’ve been talking […]

Sitting Quietly at a ‘Cull Market’ Auction

Every now and then, I’m deeply ashamed to be part of the human species. Last Wednesday was one of those days. I went to a cull market auction with my friend Tish, who kindly agreed to go with me and who, afterward, wrote a very nice post about buddy system research on her blog. We arrived […]