Flash Flood!
It’s an El Niño year, and so despite the fact that we’re in a long term drought here in the Southwest, it’s been a rainy summer.…
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Introducing the Whale Sanctuary Project
This blog is taking a break for the next few months so that I can devote my energies to the Whale Sanctuary Project. Here's why.
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Is the Sloth Sanctuary a Zoo?
The Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica was the first of its kind for these wonderfully engaging animals, and it was a model for others that followed. But questions have arisen. And…
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Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary
Tafi Atome looks like a typical forest in Ghana. The monkeys have been revered in this village for two centuries. But being “sacred” is no guarantee of survival.
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The Great Irony of Animal “Rights”
The great irony of the animal rights movement is there is still only one species that has any rights at all: humans. But the Nonhuman Rights Project is setting out to change that.
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Why Mass Extinction Is Part of Human Nature
Why would a supposedly “intelligent” species behave in a way that’s bringing about a mass extinction – one that will likely take us down along with so many other animals?
Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
Of Humans and Persons
Is the Stock Market a Global Ponzi Scheme?
Well, everything seems to be back to normal on Wall Street after a rocky start to the week. So what happened? Are we OK? We’re certainly…
Life and Death in the Parks
On a summer Sunday afternoon, Highway 12 in Southern Utah is busy with cars and luxury coaches ferrying vacationers from all over the world to Bryce…
Aussie Plan to Kill Wild Cats Will Hurt More Animals
The Australian government has announced a new plan to protect wildlife by killing two million feral cats by the year 2020. The plan calls for baiting,…
Cecil Is the Least of It
At least Walter Mitty didn’t harm anyone in his fantasies of a heroic life. The same can’t be said for Walter Palmer, a nonentity who imagined…
Hercules and Leo: Judge’s Decision
Justice Barbara Jaffe at the hearing for Hercules and Leo July 30th: Justice Barbara Jaffe has issued her ruling on whether the two chimpanzees held captive…
Ocean Circulation May Be Shutting Down
Remember the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, where fresh water from melting polar ice pours into the North Atlantic, pushing down the warm salt water…
The End of Capitalism?
On December 25th, 1991, the hammer and sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union came to an end. The communist system that…
Secrets of the Dolphin Brain
Two dolphins who died more than 10 years ago after becoming stranded on a beach in North Carolina have just given a team of scientists some…
End These Religious Festivals Now!
It’s hard to drum up a lot of sympathy for people like 20-year-old Benjamin Miller, who required three hours of surgery last February after being gored…
Mass Extinction and the Confederate Flag
I’m as horrified as anyone else at the terrorist attack that left nine people dead at a historic South Carolina church. And I’m disgusted by the…
Pope Francis and Mother Earth
Those who say that the Pope shouldn’t get involved in the issue of what’s happening to Planet Earth and all its inhabitants are either very stupid…
Pigs: Smart & Machiavellian
Winston Churchill famously said: “A dog looks up to you; a cat looks down on you; only a pig treats you as an equal.” But that,…
Chimps Cooking … and Starving
How do you put together these three items in the latest news about chimpanzees? For the first time ever, a judge in the United States orders…
Hercules & Leo Hearing Wrap-Up
Here’s a round-up of news reports about the court hearing yesterday regarding chimpanzees Hercules and Leo, who are being imprisoned at Stony Brook University for use…
Chimpanzees v. New York State
This week, the Nonhuman Rights Project goes to court to argue before a judge that Hercules and Leo, two chimpanzees being held captive for locomotion experiments…
Walmart’s Animal Welfarism
Animal welfare groups are jumping for joy over Walmart’s latest animal welfare announcement. But it’s hard understand why. The company is asking its suppliers “to engage…
Almost Toast
You might reasonably assume that the red line in this diagram illustrates what happens if humankind takes no action at all on climate change. But no,…
Humane Certified Salmonella
Foster Farms, a factory farm outfit that’s responsible for the worst salmonella outbreak on record, was the subject of a major investigative report by PBS’s Frontline…
Gov. Christie at the Pig Trough
Remember last November when Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would ban the use of gestation crates for mother pigs at factory farms in New…