Killing Animals for Self-Improvement
Two years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledged to wear a tie, last year to learn Mandarin Chinese … and this year to personally kill the animals who are going to be on his dinner plate.
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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 back to “normal” if your…
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The Growth Monster
“Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy.” That…
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King Lear, Nature and the End of the World
“The possibility of genuine chaos, real cannibalizing barbarism, is closer to the surface than we can possibly imagine.” Oscar Eustis, artistic director, New…
Cecil Is the Least of It
End These Religious Festivals Now!
How SeaWorld Is Like Scientology
An Emerging Consciousness
Three Things We Can All Do
Three things in the news this week lead to the obvious conclusion that we can do a lot to save our world from going down the tubes … if we just make some simple changes in our way of living.
Staying Away from ‘Water for Elephants’
One movie I certainly won’t be going to see this weekend is Water for Elephants, more aptly named “Torture for Elephants.”
Among Natural Disasters, a Very Greek Tragedy
April was a record-breaker for tornadoes, including 160 reported in one day last week, breaking the previous “super outbreak” of 148 one day in 1974.
Was John Paul II a Saint to the Animals?
John Paul II often spoke of his concern for other animals. In God’s Broker, author Anton Gronowicz wrote about a dream that John Paul recounted to him.
The Cave at Chauvet
The cave at Chauvet became their sanctuary, where they could commune in a more intimate way with the animals, and they could express their own sense of wonder and vulnerability.
Why Earth Day Needs to Be Animal Day
For many of us, maybe most of us, our relationship to the planet is inseparable from our relationship to the animals. So on this Earth Day, let’s not forget the animals.
The Holy Grail of Caring is No Legend
For thousands of years, swans have been a symbol of love. When Percival shoots the swan, he doesn’t “just” kill one bird; he kills love itself.
A Huge Window to Our Souls
Elephants love, grieve, get angry and stressed, and they like to enjoy themselves. This also puts them among the most emotionally and mentally vulnerable of all animals. Just like us.
You Media Shining Light on Abuses
It used to be somewhat easier for marine circuses and other animal businesses to keep deaths, injuries and other mishaps out of the spotlight, those days are long gone.
At a Crossroads with Nature
Health professionals are recognizing nature-deficit disorder as a critical factor in what ails young people emotionally and psychologically and physically.
What’s a Magical Animal Experience?
The brief glimpse I had of those kangaroos crossing the road at dusk touched something within me that was quite different from seeing them later at a zoo.
When the Earth Twitches
Instead of taking up a way of living that’s in harmony with the Earth, we’re always busy trying to take dominion over it. We want to be masters of the universe, but we’re not even masters of our own neighborhoods.
For the Best Medicine, Try the Golden Rule
I learned that at the core of all morality and ethics is the simple Golden Rule that tells us to treat all living beings as we ourselves would want to be treated.
Nessie and Us
These elusive creatures inhabit the mists and mysteries that float across our lakes and our imaginations. They’re close by, but just out of reach. They come from eons past, are seen for a moment today, and then are gone again – as they should be
Turbo and the Dolphins
The dog was in danger of drowning when dolphins came to the rescue. Why do they go out of their way to make friends and protect us and our pets from trouble?
Best in Glow!
Kudos to Hickory for winning Best in Show at Westminster. But our special prize goes to Big Mama Jubilee, a rescued pit bull mix who’s all smiles and full of talent
Sixth Sense, or Just Paying Attention?
So many people at the park are tuned out to the sights and sounds of real life, and plugged in to their IPods? Animals, however, are always tuned in. Maybe that’s why we often think they have a “sixth sense.”
Do Animals Have a Sixth Sense?
Most Americans with pets believe their animals have some unknown way of sensing things that we don’t. A Cambridge University scientist agrees that they have a sixth sense – and adds that we do, too
Happy New Year of the Rabbit …
I was all set to say something about the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, which begins today. Then I discovered that if you live in Vietnam, it’s the Year of the Cat.