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Book Review: My Dog Always Eats First by Leslie Irvine

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Even before beginning the research for her book My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People & Their Animals, Leslie Irvine had been thinking about what it means for a human to …

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Categories Animals, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pets

In Animal City our painful past is still painfully present

April 8, 2020 by John Yunker

If I asked you to picture a “cow town,” you would probably picture a small town, surrounded by pasture, set far away from the big city. Yet in the 1800s, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Harvard University Press, History, Nonfiction, Pets, What we're reading

The Emergence of Vegan Studies: Q & A with Laura Wright, author of Through a Vegan Studies Lens

August 25, 2019 by John Yunker

Laura Wright is a professor of English at Western Carolina University.  In 2015, she introduced the field of Vegan Studies through her book The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and …

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Categories Animal Rights, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, For Writers, Oceans, Q&A, Veganism

Book Review: The Animals’ Agenda by Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce

September 29, 2019May 8, 2018 by Midge Raymond

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, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Beacon Press, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Veganism

J. M. Coetzee (and many others) push for an end to animal testing

June 9, 2015 by John Yunker

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, …

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Categories Animal Rights, For Writers, Veganism

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