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If plants have feelings, how does this affect our advocacy for animals?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, president of United Poultry Concerns Can a tree be “strategically responsive, and exhibit kinship, or a sense of self? Is a tree intelligent?” ––Rebecca Giggs, “The Trees Are Talking,” The Atlantic, July /August 2021,  published online as A Better Way to Look at Trees. This intriguing article in The Atlantic recounts […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Helen Nearing, Jonathan Balcombe, Norm Phelps

Norm Phelps, 75, spiritual mentor to the animal rights movement

January 12, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

A vegan since 1984, Phelps quit eating meat in response to the death of his dog Czar Norm Phelps, 75, died on December 31, 2014 at the Meritus Health Hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland. Phelps had battled myasthenia gravis, an auto-immune neuromuscular condition that causes severe fatigue and weakness, since 2002. A vegan since 1984, survived […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Food, Humane history, Islam, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Dalai Lama, Norm Phelps, Paul Shapiro

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA

December 12, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

by Norm Phelps Lantern Books (1 Union Square West, Suite 201, New York, NY 10003), 2007. 367 pages, paperback. $20.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton If anyone wrote a history of animal advocacy before Noah built the ark, it missed the boat. Histories of animal advocacy have mostly missed the boat ever since. Many have been […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Islam, Religion & philosophy Tagged With: Norm Phelps

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