Megan McArdle on Veganism
Posted on August 1, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Life-In-General | 2 Comments
One of the Atlantic blogging team explains why she blogs about her vegan diet from time to time, and how being a vegan or a vegetarian does not automatically mean that you hate meat-eaters:
Is it possible to be a vegan without judging other people? It had better be, because I just don’t have time [...]
Rabbit Killings in Germany
Posted on July 9, 2008 - Filed Under Animals | 1 Comment
Strange story from the BBC:
“I looked inside and saw Rocco just lying there. His head was missing. A little later I found Felina in the bushes. She’d been killed, too. I just cannot understand why.”
Rocco and Felina are among the 30 pet rabbits killed in the towns of Witten and Dortmund since last summer.
Many of [...]
Picture Time
Posted on July 4, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Funny | Leave a Comment
The Endowment Effect
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Science | Leave a Comment
Here’s an interesting link to an Economist article about how people value things more once they own them. It probably goes someway towards explaining why my bedroom is so full of useless crap.
Alan Rabinowitz on the Colbert Report
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Environment/Conservation, Politics | 4 Comments
This guy is awesome, and the work he does sounds awesome too. Instead of wasting money on fueling over-population in poor countries, the Irish government should give way more money to conservation projects like this guy’s. Last time I checked we had more than enough people on this planet…
His book on Amazon.
ThreatDown!
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Funny | Leave a Comment
Face of the Day
Posted on May 2, 2008 - Filed Under Animals | 2 Comments
This might become a regular feature around here, as it is on Andrew Sullivan’s blog.
Face of the Day
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under Animals | 1 Comment
From the BBC.
In Vitro Meat
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Environment/Conservation, Science, Stuff I Want | 4 Comments
No to blow my own trumpet, but I saw this coming about 5 years ago. Apart from the obvious ethical advantages inherent in not killing nice, peaceful cows, there are other benefits:
Rapidly evolving technology and increasing concern about the environmental impact of meat production are signs that vat-grown meat is moving from scientific curiosity to [...]
Sad Picture is Sad
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under Animals | Leave a Comment
Animal Celebrity
Posted on April 9, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Media | 1 Comment
Germany’s celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors.
Critics say Berlin Zoo should not have put live fish inside Knut’s enclosure. But German media report that the carp were put there to eat up algae.
There is speculation that [...]
Happiness Boost
Posted on March 29, 2008 - Filed Under Animals | 2 Comments
Pictures of nice animals can do that.
Killing Kangaroos
Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Animals | 2 Comments
From the BBC:
Animal rights activists in Australia say they will try to prevent the planned killing of more than 400 kangaroos.
Contractors are preparing to cull the animals on a former naval site in Canberra, after the new government rejected a proposal to relocate them.
The plan is to shoot some 400 kangaroos with tranquiliser darts and [...]
*Sigh*
Posted on March 6, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Stuff I Want | 1 Comment
I dreamt I had a pet panda last night. A sense of deep, profound disappointment has been hovering over me all day…
Animal Rights and Such
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under Animals, Environment/Conservation | 7 Comments
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. I can’t understand how someone could act like this. It’s really fucked up. Why is it that the West screams bloody murder when the Japanese launch whaling expeditions and then gives Canada a pass to kill 300,000 seals every year? What disgusting hypocrisy. Don’t eat [...]
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