Book Review: The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
We want to believe that cows live happy lives. From our childhoods of Old MacDonald and his farm, field trips and cartoons and stuffed animals, we are raised to believe …
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Book Review: The Animals’ Agenda by Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce
The Animals’ Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce is an important and timely book that examines the human relationship with — or, …
Book Review: What It’s Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
I am forever wondering what my dog, Galen, is thinking. Sometimes I go nose to nose with her, stare into her brown eyes, and ponder what’s happening in that little …
Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North America
After finishing Wolf Haven I went straight to the Internet and looked up Wolf Haven International. I had been aware of the California Wolf Center, located outside San Diego, but was not aware …
Book Review: Just Life
When I read a New York Times story about a New York City neighborhood grappling with a rare animal-borne disease that killed one resident and left at least two others …
Book Review: The Vegan Studies Project
Donald Watson is widely credited with having coined the term “vegan” in 1944, when he and others founded the Vegan Society. Since then, the word has become so heavily loaded with cultural and emotional …
J. M. Coetzee (and many others) push for an end to animal testing
The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has issued an important report that calls for the “de-normalisation of animal experimentation.” The report is backed by numerous scientists, scholars, theologians and writers, …
The Chain picks up where The Jungle leaves off
The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, by Ted Genoways, is an important work of reporting. Based on years of interviews and tireless research, the book spans the length …
Book Review: The Awareness by Gene Stone and Jon Doyle
The Awareness (March 2014) is told in the shifting point of view of a wild bear, a circus elephant, a factory farmed pig and a rescued pet dog — all …
Book Review – The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle
Wayne Pacelle’s The Bond is much more than its gentle title suggests. Rather than present a quaint book about the human-animal bond, Pacelle (president and CEO of the Humane Society of …
Book Review: The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
No one gives animals a voice like author Richard Adams. While most may be familiar with his novel Watership Down (1972) from childhood, readers of EcoLit may especially appreciate The …