Utah to Chickens: "Screw You!"
Utah’s Attorney General is concerned for poor people. The new law in California that gives egg-laying chickens enough room to “lie down, stand up, fully extend…
Utah’s Attorney General is concerned for poor people. The new law in California that gives egg-laying chickens enough room to “lie down, stand up, fully extend…
Part Six in the series “I Am Not an Animal.” In previous posts, we looked at how our anxiety over our mortal, animal nature drives us to distance ourselves, psychologically and literally, from our fellow animals; at how ancient mythologies told of a “fall” from a time when we were in harmony with the other animals; and at how our belief in “human exceptionalism” has led us to treat them.
Now we ask: Where do we go from here, and is there any way out of our situation?
In a lighter vein than usual on this blog (!): What kind of music do cats prefer: Jazz? Classical? Bluegrass? New Age? The answer: None of…
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in…