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Book Review: LETTERS TO MY SHEEP by Teya Brooks Pribac

January 4, 2024 by Midge Raymond

In Letters To My Sheep, a lovely, thoughtful book comprising sixty-three short chapters, Teya Brooks Pribac, a scholar and multidisciplinary artist who lives in the Blue Mountains of Australia, shares musings, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Essays

Book Review: Vegan Minded: Becoming a Steward for Animals, People, and the Planet

January 1, 2024 by John Yunker

It’s not often that I come across books with ‘vegan’ in the title — particularly now that ‘plant-based’ has become the less controversial, more mainstream alternative. Yet I still prefer …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, PNW, Sustainability, Veganism

Bycatch

October 2, 2023 by John Yunker

In fishing, there is what you catch, and then there is bycatch. Catch is what is intended; bycatch is what is unintended.  A necessary evil. That is, until one understands …

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Categories Animal Rights, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, Hunting, Oceans, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism

December 28, 2023July 17, 2023 by Midge Raymond

The term “Effective Altruism” has been buzzy for a while now and has attracted well-known followers and promoters — and because of this, the movement is generally associated with doing …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction, Oxford University Press, Veganism

Book Review: Frankenstein was a Vegetarian

February 26, 2023 by John Yunker

Never had the proverb You are what you eat came to mind so often as I was reading Frankenstein was a Vegetarian by Michael Owen Jones. The book encompasses a …

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Categories Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS by Martha C. Nussbaum

February 23, 2023February 20, 2023 by Midge Raymond

As with so many books about the plight of animals in today’s world, Martha C. Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility needs to be read most of all by …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Oceans, Sustainability

Love is War: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag

February 8, 2023 by John Yunker

Boy meets girl. Girl goes veg. Boy goes off the deep end. And so begins this heartfelt, occasionally hilarious and generally brilliant graphic novel about one man’s struggle to resist …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Graphic Novel, Hunting, Pets, Veganism, What we're reading

79 million U.S. households are now buying plant-based products

April 5, 2022 by John Yunker

Animal agriculture is one of the most environmentally damaging industries on our planet — not to mention unfathomably cruel. And though there are times when I wonder if we as …

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Categories Veganism

Life Between the Tides, by Adam Nicolson

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2022 (Published in the UK as The Sea is Not Made of Water) Life Between the Tides is my kind of book. British author, Adam …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, History, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability

Listen, We All Bleed: The artists who are helping us hear what animals have to say

November 8, 2021 by John Yunker

So much of animal activism is focused around what one sees — witnessing the beauty as well as the suffering of the animals we share this planet with. But what …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Rewilding, Veganism

Sue Coe and the last great social movement

October 17, 2021 by John Yunker

In the book Animal Resistance there are a number of illustrations by the artist Sue Coe. And it turns out that Sue was interviewed last year by The New York …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Endangered Species, Hunting, Veganism
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