Drunk Mooses Wreaking Havoc in Sweden
Move over bears, there’s a new animal threat in town: Inebriated mooses (meese? moose?). An inebriated moose trying to get more fermenting apples apparently lost its balance and ended up stuck in an apple tree in Sweden, The Local website reported. After returning home from work Tuesday evening, Per Johansson of Saro heard bellowing from [...]
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PETA to start a porn site, because of course.
I don’t see what could possibly go wrong with this plan: Instead of focusing on anti-fur, the porn site will raise awareness of veganism, said Rajt. “We really want to grab people’s attention, get them talking and to question the status quo and ultimately take action, because the best way we can help the greatest [...]
...read moreBunny Feet Circles of Love
Time for something cute from me for a change. This video is what my bunny does every morning when I get up and walk through his room. Because he loves me and is excited to see me. That vid’s about four years old now, but he still does the same thing every morning, and sometimes [...]
...read moreFood Visibility
Bittman has a great column this week about the ridiculous proposed laws to ban filming and photography at farms. Animal rights and sustainable food activists have embarrassed corporate farms by publishing footage of how corporate farms actually treat animals, and the disgusting and cruel conditions that they maintain (the footage is often shot by brave [...]
...read moreWeasel Attack
The local news is so great: HOQUIAM, Wash. — Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man. The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker said, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” then punched him in the [...]
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You’re such a dog.
Via the Hairpin, this is the funnest game ever: Upload a picture of yourself, and the Doggelganger program will find a dog that looks like you and that is also in your area. Unfortunately the program thinks I am in New Zealand, so I can’t actually go and get my doggelganger Elliot. But look how [...]
...read morePreventing Cruelty on the Farm
So this thread is predictably out of control — which let’s be honest, I knew was going to happen, because it happens anytime we talk about food and/or post pictures of cute animals — but some interesting and important arguments about how we eat have been raised in the comments. I’ve written about this before, [...]
...read morelinks for 5-11-2011
First time! via INCITE! The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities , is a new and necessary anthology that needs to be read by everyone in activist communities. So often we see ourselves as above perpetuating the same oppressive and violent actions within our own communities and intimate relationships. This book [...]
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But what about when boys call me “foxy”?
Ay yi yi: Animal ethicists are calling for a new vocabulary about animals, shunning words such as “pets,” “wildlife,” and “vermin” as derogatory and even suggesting “animal” is a “term of abuse.” Common language on fauna betrays an “anthropocentric bias” and impedes an understanding of our interaction with the non-human species sharing the planet, argue [...]
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Lolz.
Too much serious today? Check these out. The Washington Post inadvertently publishes my online dating profile with the editor’s notes still included. Thanks for the link, Rebe! I like big butts and I cannot lie, but is there some evolutionary reason as to why? First page of my book: What do you think? (Amazing for [...]
...read moreCruelty to Animals
Mark Bittman tackles the pet/farm animal divide in his column today, pointing out the ridiculousness of protecting animals from cruelty when they’re pets, but allowing prolonged torture and abuse if they’re farm animals who are being “processed” for food (warning on that link: it has some pretty graphic descriptions of animal cruelty). [I]n New York [...]
...read moreCats WINNING.
Duh! It’s the tiger blood. (Seriously, this is the funniest thing you’ll see all day, cat ladies).
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