Sorry for light posting. Matt and I have both had deadlines (and his office is moving) and you probably know how busy Reid is already. I am writing some material that COULD lead to something big so posting after today will still be lighter than usual, though I’ll try to get in a review or …
Tag: AR
Food and AR News
In Oakland you can have an actual farm, pigs and all. But in Chicago, the banningest city in the US (pigeons, foie gras, handguns), HSUS wants to compel you to cut off your dogs’ gonads. Of course they say it is a good thing. The Sportsman’s and Animal Owners Voting Alliance thinks differently: “The distorted …
Around the Web…
Back from a great weekend of wildlife watching, mushroom hunting, and eating and drinking with bloggers- more below (Or rather, above). But first let me catch up with the news, serious, unserious, amusing and distressing… On our perrenial concern, AR, anti hunters and so on: the LAT does a fawning profile of Wayne Pacelle. Apart …
AB 1634
Cute but concise: a “saluki” opposes mandatory spay- neuter in California.
PETA kills chicken course
PETA successfully pressured an upstate New York school to end a well- regarded course in the ecology of food in which willing students raised and slaughtered chickens. It was much like a 4H program but more balanced– vegetarian students were encouraged to address the class, there were lectures on eating less meat, and they were …
At War with ARistas?
I usually think it is not quite this bad yet, but when Phyllis McDonald sent me this from the UKC I nearly choked. RTWT, but here is an excerpt. “Robert Attleson lives in Littleton, Colorado, where he and his long-time partner, Melissa, raise English Setters. In addition to breeding and showing dogs, Bob is active …
Should You Eat Dogs?
My gut reaction: NO!! You are surprised? Matt Miller pointed me to this piece in Salon by Ted Kerasote about a horrifying experience he had in China. My take is not quite the same as his but close enough, especially for dogs. Matt wrote: “Thinking about the grouse watching trip’s participants: have you seenTed K.’s …
More on Spaying
Dr John Burchard writes on mandatory spay neuter, resurrected in California. I had said: “Only Americans (and perhaps Canadians) have this neutering thing. I thinkEuropean members [ of our list– they did] will confirm that neutering of purebred dogs is much rarer there. He replied: “It is beginning to catch on there too … but …
Pornstars for PETA?
Patrick has been kicking PETA’s collective butt lately. In this post he savages the dim- witted celebrities who speak up for the animal- exterminating ‘rights’ organization. “Then we have porn star and PETA spokes-idiot Jenna Jameson. Now I am not a connoisseour of porn, so I have to ask: is this picture of her the …
Unspeakable Allies
ANOTHER “You Can’t Make It Up” moment: Ingrid “Holocaust on your plate” and “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” Newkirk has bonded with “Hang ’em if they won’t fight” dogfighter Michael Vick. “Vick, demonized by PETA for more than a year, could become the bridge in this divide. Newkirk struck …