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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny. photo by John Huba.

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How to Confront Cruelty

Critter News

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. Sounds interesting.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11). Yes, you read that right.)

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) At no point will we speculate about Martin’s motives.

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Peter Singer on the Wrongness of Killing Animals

Animal Ethics

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. Instead the argument for vegetarianism is based on the suffering that is, and as far as I can see always will be, associated with the rearing and slaughtering of animals on a large scale to feed urban populations.

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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

Sales and Marketing Management

“It’s a sad reflection on how broken our work environments and company structures often are,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, cofounder of the web application company Basecamp and coauthor, along with his Basecamp cofounder Jason Fried, of the book “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work.” Quality will most likely suffer?—?and

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. I was in Africa earlier this year and the universal message I got was that bookings were down down DOWN because of ebola.

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