Orphan cause was foundation of the animal advocacy movement (See also HSUS bails out of humane education; ASPCA & AHA already did.) SEATTLE, Washington––To see overt cruelty to animals––and humans––today, one need only go to Facebook or search on the Worldwide Web. No sort of cruelty or misery is far from view, despite the efforts of […]
How “Quality of Mercy” Swallowed the humane movement (part 2)
1963 history sidestepped controversies that revitalized the cause (See also Quality of Mercy Part 1.) By the end of the era in humane work that William Alan Swallow most thoroughly chronicles in Quality of Mercy (1963), an era coinciding with the 40-year career of Swallow’s longtime close associate Eric H. Hansen (1903-1965), most mainstream U.S. […]
How “Quality of Mercy” Swallowed the humane movement (part 1)
Effects of 1963 rewrite of history are still felt (See also Quality of Mercy, Part 2) Animal Welfare Institute founder Christine Stevens (1918-2002), introduced as Mrs. Roger Stevens, and National Humane Education Society founder Anna Briggs (1910-2011), introduced as Catherine Briggs, were probably the last people alive who were noted as humane movement leaders by […]