I hear it over and over again: “I don’t want to know.” This is an understandable first reaction to learning about the horrors of the industrialized meat industry. It is difficult to swallow (no pun intended) the fact that something you have been doing your whole life, is fueling such unbelievable cruelty, causing massive environmental …
Dec
15
Nov
17
Let’s Talk Turkey
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, let’s talk turkey. President George Washington declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1789 with these words, “Thanksgiving is a time to rediscover the spiritual being within and draw strength from our founders and political zealots whose prolific faith has created a nation that we as well as our progeny …
Nov
15
Things That Are
What is it about the question of animal suffering that makes ordinarily reasonable people fly off the handle? This always surprises me. If you express concern for the veal calf, huddled in a tiny cage for its entire life prior to being brutally butchered, then you must be one of those ridiculous fanatics. Have qualms about some …
Oct
06
Religion (Yes, I’m Going There)
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1:28 Why is it that we turn to religious teachings for moral …
Aug
26
Thoughts & Ramblings
First things first: I received a personal comment from a loyal follower noting that he was very disappointed in my previous post because I simply copy/pasted out of the Time article and did not add my own opinion. My intention was to show that reputable news sources are reporting on this problem and that it’s …
Jul
02
Compassion
There is an unusual amount of cultural confusion around animals. Half of the dogs in America receive Christmas presents, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig (easily as intelligent as a dog) that becomes our Christmas ham. At the same time that many of us seem eager to expand …
Apr
29
Knowledge Is Power
We live in a culture obsessed with food, yet we know so little about what we eat. We are so far removed from the source (the actual cows, or fields of grain) that of course we never consider where the Big Mac we’re gobbling down came from, or what it contains. My naive quest for …
