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Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky

November 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Eventually live turkeys joined the feast.  But not at first. Chloe Sorvino,  food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes,  marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980,  by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,”  blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Paul Obis, Peter Singer, Tom Regan

The Thanksgiving Turkey as Ritual Scapegoat

November 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

in the Carnivalesque Tradition by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns Human radical abuse of “food” animals cannot be explained by economic efficiency alone. It is also an outgrowth of attitudes humans have had toward nonhuman animals through the ages,  rooted in our resentment at being animals,  which we project onto them. In his […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Judaism, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin

Are feminists right to resist comparison with the females of other species?

June 9, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD.,  president of United Poultry Concerns A woman employed on a chicken “breeder” farm in Maryland wrote a letter once to the local newspaper berating the defenders of chickens for trying to make her lose her job, threatening her ability to support herself and her daughter. For her,  “breeder” hens were “mean” birds who […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Workers Tagged With: Carol J.Adams, Carolynn L. Smith, J. Baird Callicott, Jane Johnson, Jim Mason, Marc Bekoff

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