Decades ago, before I stopped eating sweet, innocent herbivores, aka, meat–little lambs, baby boy calves, teenage cows, chicken tots, and piglets and their moms and dads–I had chronic fatigue symptoms, severe thyroid and pancreatic issues, a taxed liver, and chronic bouts of anxiety and depression. When compassion gave me the courage to switch to a […]
Animal Rights
When Wild Lives Become Backyard Pests…
…please do no harm. Instead, talk to the little perpetrators heart-to-heart, by way of animal communication, our primary language. Whether they are upsetting your space, chomping on the roots of your fruit trees and vegetable gardens, creating a stink, gnawing at the walls of your home, chewing on your car engine wires, and/or finishing off […]
Almost Quit Veganism for Happy Organic Pasture Cows
Sometimes, I’m only human in forgetting that I’m an animal. When I disconnect from my sacred primal self, not only do I feel bored, I crave creamy comfort foods to nurture me in my dead zone. Today, during my disconnect with myself, my instant target fix was on butter. Online, I found Organic Pastures. I […]
A Sentimental Swim with a Sea Turtle…
This turtle painting by Artist Susan Clifton takes me back to the time I was straddling the bow of a boat sailing full stream ahead over the Bermuda Triangle. I clung to the rails as I was swept through dimensions of our ancient past. That was the feeling I got from the brilliant gold turtle […]
“Getting Rid of My Girlfriend’s Dog that Bit Me”
“You never know with animals,” the young student in the parking lot said sheepishly, after telling me that his girlfriend’s dog was a cute, little female dachshund who(m) she loved ever so much. She agreed to get rid of the dog because the dog bit him. Once. The dog bit him, once. “So, what happened […]
Coming to Our Senses Re: Animal Intelligence
An old Scientific American article on animal intelligence, is largely about whales and the need for us to come to our senses in how we view animals. Reading it again is for me a soothing validation of what many of us know to be true about animals. And a confirmation of my own ‘sense-abilities’ as a small […]
The Animal Rights of a $9,000 Dog
Even the mere concept of buying a dog seems ethically repulsive when you can instead rescue a pedigree from a shelter for a couple of hundred or less. A pure animal rights person would never give a penny to an upscale reputable breeder. It’s a strict moral issue among us activists. But, hello, the $9,000 […]
The Safe…but Sorry Indoor Cat
Do you keep your cats indoors because you’d rather be safe than sorry? I sympathize with you, but… How would you feel if you were confined to house arrest all your life for a crime you never committed? To paraphrase Anabel, the safe, but sorry indoor Calico cat, “I feel like dog sh-t.” During an […]
Who’s That Ape in My Mirror?
I just signed a petition asking Air France to stop transporting primates for research labs. Not that any of us are totally innocent of the extreme cruelty inflicted on animals more or less a strand or two away from being human. Using primates, or any feeling, sensitive, heart-based animal – mice included – in research […]
Human Spirit?
A friend was telling me how great he thinks the human spirit is in reference to the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. It’s amazing how amazed people are when they see how people, after suffering horrific trauma, eventually feel reborn – empowered – with the help of millions of their own species supporting and […]
