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Apprenticeships in kindness 25 Jan 2010 | 05:00 pm
The Roman poet Ovid said “cruelty toward animals is the apprenticeship of cruelty against men”. (I know this because I subscribe to a quote site that sends me a linguistic gem every day or so.) I don’...
Soon this space will be too small 6 Jan 2010 | 06:04 pm
That’s the title of one of Lhasa’s songs, one that I remember well from her 2004 concert tour. When I heard her sing that song up on stage only a few feet away, I thought for the the first time, “wow,...
Twenty years ago today… 7 Dec 2009 | 05:46 am
I was a first-year student in a Quebec university. Early in the evening of December 6, 1989, I had a class in the 7 to 10 pm slot, and that was where I must have heard about the Polytechnique massacre...
Thinking about Skinny 31 Aug 2009 | 03:13 pm
I was feeling very alone yesterday. I was trying to get some work done at the tail end of a chaotic summer while the kids spend their last weekend before school starts at the country house with their ...
Animal euthanasia 3 Aug 2009 | 07:40 am
So I arrived at the clinic yesterday morning, it was my Saturday for the month (there are four of us, we take turns). Saturday mornings usually extend well into the afternoon, with non-stop appointmen...
Meatless Monday and vegetarianism in the Guardian 22 Jun 2009 | 10:48 am
When Hadley Freeman wrote last week about how awful it was for her to be a vegetarian, I was puzzled. If it’s so awful for her, then the only thing keeping her from eating meat is that she finds it re...
I.B. Singer and animals 22 Jun 2009 | 07:54 am
Prior to researching a long paper I wrote for Veterinary Heritage on the history of antivivisectionism and the animal rights movement, the name Isaac Bashevis Singer barely registered for me. I was va...
Analogies and abortions 13 Jun 2009 | 07:34 am
Having sat through too many evangelical sermons in my younger life, I’ve developed a strong resistance to arguments that draw on analogy. Most of the sermons I endured as a teenager and young adult we...
Michaëlle Jean eats seal heart, makes a dishonest point 27 May 2009 | 08:39 am
Yes, I’m sure I could eat raw heart too, and I imagine it would taste much like sushi – i.e. like not much at all. Fresh as it is, I’m sure just a few bites would contain your RDA in iron and B12 vita...
An event of historical proportions 25 May 2009 | 08:45 am
Those aren’t my words – those are from Tom Regan himself, one of the Grand Old Men of the animal rights movement. (Actually, he looks and talks as if he were 50 instead of 70.) The event he was refer...
