We are continually exhorted to boycott this product or that, urged to refrain from lending financial support to one company or another, warned to vote with our dollars, or our pounds sterling, or our euros. I, myself, have asked others to participate in boycotts. And like others, I have seen our efforts sputter and fail.…

Originally posted on Blossomfire's Blog:
Please Understand My Point Perhaps more than any other oppression, speciesism is least understood, recognized or acknowledged. The multi-dimensionality of its impact on every phase of our lives is hidden, distorted and/or denied.  As is demonstrated in the above painting, vegans, myself included, sometimes feel we must DRILL a…

Originally posted on Blossomfire's Blog:
I watched a video of 10-15 people going into (to protest) a dairy farm where these sweet, gentle calves were awaiting slaughter. my heart broke (as it so often does) and the painting above is the result. Along the border is written: Vegan: kind, compassionate, healthy, sustain-a-bull. Plants provide…

The surest way to impact public policy is to impact elected officials. And the most effective way to impact public officials is to threaten their incumbencies. The animal movement has little political influence. And that is a generous assessment. Animal issues are not on the public’s radar, so they are not on politicians’ radar either.…

Originally posted on Exposing the Big Game:
Photo Jim Robertson by Jack Carone There is a tendency for some of us who wish to promote veganism—a way of living which excludes the use of animals for food, clothing and other exploitation— to cushion the call to action with a warning/acknowledgement/suggestion that it is a difficult…

Originally posted on Exposing the Big Game:
FROM  All-Creatures.org by Veda Stram July 2015 Some things I wish someone had told me when I was new to activism. And some things I have learned the hard way and some things other activists have told me have helped their activism. And some questions I have found…

Originally posted on Exposing the Big Game:
The other day a friend asked me, “How do you keep your head above it all? You do so much, and your immersion in the dark side of information and events is so deep. I’ve seen most of what can be seen, I think. But even still, I…

Originally posted on V Kind:
On 9th December 1998, I named a puppy Tiny Tim, and he’s on my mind today, 19 years later, because I can’t forget him. Then I pressed a heart shaped stone into the earth that covered his frozen fur. At a guess, he was around 12 weeks old. We found…

Originally posted on The Extinction Chronicles:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Senate-Quietly-Passes-Alaska-Oil-Drilling-Bill-20171203-0004.html The 19.6-million acre refuge is home to polar bears, caribou, migratory birds and other wildlife | Photo: Reuters FILE ? by Earl Bousquet “It’s outrageous that the oil lobby and their allies in Congress are trying to destroy the crown jewel of America’s wildlife refuge system.” Late Saturday the…