Instead of posting status updates on Facebook, I am now 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 in the…
Animal activists who support Hillary are constantly pointing to her HSUS score while a US Senator as proof of Hillary’s being a friend to animals. To get an accurate reading on Hillary and her concern for animals, they need to look instead at what she has done since leaving the Senate and what she is…
The modern animal movement is commonly dated from the publication of Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation” in 1975. I take exception to that demarcation, as I have been an animal activist since 1958. In any event, the movement has been working for decades to end animal suffering. Most efforts have been aimed at rescuing cats and…
Instead of posting status updates on Facebook, I am now 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 in the…
Most activists are on social media to advocate for causes in which they believe. Animal activists, environmentalists, social justice advocates, occupiers, Berners, etc, are all here to make a difference in the world. They are selfless, by and large, and not interested in personal aggrandizement or popularity. They aren’t selling anything or working for personal…
Conspicuously absent from the political discourse are voices against war. Every major political figure in the country supports dropping bombs on foreign soil and drone strikes against civilians. Bernie Sanders, the most progressive candidate, differs little from the raging lunacy of Ted Cruz in regard to military action against ISIS, and the use of drones…
The major animal rights and animal protection organizations are fund raising machines. They have to be, because they must meet million dollar payrolls and pay their fund raisers. Little is left over for the animals. Were all that money to be placed in the hands of rescues and activists, millions more animals could be saved.…
Animal Rights is the belief that all sentient beings have the same right to exist. The same right to life. The same rights to be free of exploitation, slavery, and murder. that we humans declare for ourselves. But saying we believe it and actually acting as though we do are entirely different matters. If we…
For fifty years the animal movement has rescued, adopted, fostered, protested, leafleted, marched, petitioned, written, and called. All to no avail. More animals are dying today than ever in history. The Animal Holocaust has quadrupled since Peter Singer published Animal Liberation in 1973. More dying at the hands of vivisectors for Big Pharma and in…
Fifty years ago I was in college, fighting against the war in Viet Nam. How I wish I had been fighting against the Animal Holocaust instead of, or in addition to, the war. I was running draft resisters to Canada, marching in the streets, getting beaten up by the LAPD. Back then, I had no…
Armory of the Revolution 