Originally posted on V Kind:
I hadn’t eaten since lunch time, so when it got to 1am I was feeling the need to go raid the kitchen to see what I could find. I opened the fridge and my eyes settled on a box of newly purchased eggs (I’m vegan, but not the only person…
Originally posted on V Kind:
It has been a busy week here, and I sat down to reply to the touchingly kind, and caring comments people had left on the earlier passing of one of my girl rats, and the stories of their own, when I scrolled by this: There was a moment I almost…
Instead of merely posting status updates on Facebook, I am now also posting each apothegm, thought, observation, and witticism, here, as a Thought of the Day. Status updates on Facebook disappear into the ether and cannot be relocated by readers. Before you leave, please take a moment to follow this blog by clicking on Follow…
Originally posted on V Kind:
I’m sad to write another rat related post, after announcing the arrival of the recent additions (who for the record, are not boys at all!). For the last two hours, I’ve been trying to stop myself from crying, and form some kind of sense with the feelings I have, and…
Until Donald Trump, the GOP was the party of free trade agreements, military adventurism, cutting capital gains taxes, corporate welfare, tax loopholes, trickle-down economics, super pacs, and lobbyist influence in campaigns and government. Trump ignored establishment orthodoxy and repudiated establishment priorities. In doing so, he commandeered the party and on the presidency. Trump was able…
My friend Joseph Berson (he goes by Jay) is 77. With glasses, a little less hair and a few more teeth, he would bear an uncanny resemblance to Bernie Sanders. Jay’s political positions are closer to Bernie’s than are mine. We have have spirited discussions and hours of discourse every week. He is an avid…
One of the first people to employ drones in the fight to protect animals was my good friend Steve Hindi, of SHARK, who used them to frighten off animals being hunted. Those modest beginnings suggest remarkable opportunities for animal activists to use drones even more effectively. Drones can be outfitted with firearms, affording vigilantes the…
by Mike Hudak mikehudak@mikehudak.com http://www.mikehudak.com http://www.westernturfwars.com 10 November 2008 Revision dates: 5 February 2013, 21 July 2015, 7 February 2017, 10 July 2017 Introduction In this essay I will estimate the annual contribution to atmospheric green-house gases from methane (CH4) that results from enteric fermentation1 in cattle that graze on U.S. federal public lands.…
by Marcia Mueller Animal rights will not be won by incremental changes within capitalism. Working around the margins is not enough in a system so powerful, one that derives enormous profits from the exploitation of animals. If justice for nonhumans depends upon revolution and the destruction of capitalism, then the revolution lies in the…
Originally posted on Animalista Untamed:
What happens? Nature fights back! We’ve done our best to trash the planet. We’ve plundered the earth of precious stones, covered it in concrete to sell people things they don’t need, contaminated it with deadly radiation, declared a piece of it a DMZ to keep apart the heavily armed guards…
Armory of the Revolution 