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More Than a Meal: Thanksgiving, turkeys, tradition & Karen Davis

November 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

First condemned,  then pardoned,  without a statement of rights  WASHINGTON D.C.­­––Perhaps nothing could underscore the role of turkeys as Thanksgiving sacrificial victims than the annual ritual at which U.S. President Joe Biden on November 21,  2022 “pardoned” the 46-pound and 47-pound turkeys Chocolate and Chip on the South Lawn of the White House. For what […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Turkeys, USA Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Spira, Jim Mason, Joe Biden, John Kullberg, Karen Davis, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

Blurring the boundary between humans and other animals

January 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, Ph.D.  Founder & president, United Poultry Concerns Heinrich Himmler,  who founded the quasi-military police unit known as the SS [Schutzstaffel]and administered the Nazi death camps,  was initially a chicken farmer. According to Charles Patterson in his book Eternal Treblinka:  Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,  Himmler’s “agricultural studies and experience breeding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pigs, Poultry, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Boria Sax, Charles Patterson, Heinrich Himmler, Jim Mason, Karen Davis, Midas Dekkers

The Origins & Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia & Europe  

May 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Jim Mason Edited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning, and Stephen Shennan Routledge, 2013,  https://www.routledge.com/.  354 pages hardcover,  also available in paperback and Kindle formats.  This book is an academic work, a collection of recent writings by zooarchologists (or archeozoologists) on the origins of animal domestication in the prehistoric Middle […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Sheep & goats Tagged With: James Conolly, Jim Mason, Katie Manning, Keith Dobney, Stephen Shennan, Sue Colledge

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

April 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Gavin Ehringer, Jim Mason, Merritt Clifton, misothery, Niles Eldridge, Peter Singer, Stephen Jay Gould

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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