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" Two AnimalRights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. I don't know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is international if that matters. If it matters to you to clear any of this up, fire away.
This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animalrights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.
Stephanie Ernst, formerly of Change.org , has started a new space called " AnimalRights and AntiOppression " and she has invited yours truly to post there! Stephanie has also invited Deb from Invisible Voices , Kelly G from easyVegan.info and Marji, who blogs for Animal Place sanctuary and For the Pits.
Other than being a vegan, the most important actions you can take to help animals who are used for food are: Give generously to organizations that help those sentient nonhumans directly, such as Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary , Maple Farm Sanctuary , Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary and Eastern Shore Sanctuary.
I was going to change Animal Person to Vegan Atheist 40+ Parenting and come back to blogging. Doesn't have a ring to it at all, but a young man at Whole Foods yesterday called himself an "animal person" while ordering a roast beef wrap and I thought: Note to self-must change blog name if going to resume blogging.
Yesterday's lessons learned were primarily about blogging. And how, for the love of God, people have got so stop saying things like Vegan Before 6! See Vegan Between Meals for more). But, probably because I was blogging daily and there wasn't great fodder daily, I expanded into other areas. Today they're about language.
The one that caught my eye as useful for vegans and the animalrights community is: WEBook, a venture-backed start-up in New York, allows people to collaborate on writing books and is working on new ways to let readers give writers real-time feedback on their work. In " Is This the Future of the Digital Book? "
My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects.
I've been out of every loop I used to be in because my work outside of veganism and animalrights came a-calling in a most critical way. I haven't been able to blog, or, I haven't made it a priority. And my disappointment over vegan-on-vegan hate has found an unlikely peer in atheist-on-agnostic (and -on-believer) hate.
Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animalrights. Both animalrights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill.
Ask family members and friends who are unfamiliar with animal issues to join you in attending the festival events. You can send them our evite or our facebook event invitation , post it on your website, blog, social networking site (facebook, myspace, twitter, meetup, etc.), Together, we can make something special happen in Orlando!
I notice that if I use "animalrights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animalrights." And not necessarily for animals.
I was hoping to say that I have blogged every day for three years as of today, but sadly, and very frustratingly, the past couple of days I have been otherwise occupied. Remember that this isn't a blog, but might include one. I started this blog for Barbaro , and this third anniversary post is for Gray Momma.
I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at AnimalRights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animalrights stories in the news. Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. That's respect.
While spending hours in the car I've been thinking about various issues related to sentient nonhumans, animalrights and veganism. I haven't had time to blog--or even to work out daily like I used to--but that doesn't mean I don't read all my e-mails and go to every link everyone sends me. What kind of lesson is that?
Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" Yes, that's true. Besides, we have choices.
First, Chris directed me to ePub Bud , which appears to be a timely and fantastic idea given my recent plea for more books for children about veganism. Letters to the editor, blogging/podcasting/vlogging all come to mind as they don't involve interaction with other people (that's the problem in this instance). What do you think?
Families are just as capable of horrendous policies toward animals as anyone else. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. Just ask former cattle rancher Howard Lyman , who is now a vegan and animalrights activist.
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