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Many people whose moral circle includes animals face ongoing interactions that communicate insensitivity, pressure to conform, and downright obliviousness. There are often insensitive remarks- like hearing you should “get over it” while you grieve the loss of a companion animal.  Or maybe you are criticized (by animal eaters) as “difficult” for eating a vegetarian or vegan diet when folks assume your choices are […]

Wait, is this for real?  CatterBox from Temptations Lab announced developments on a cat collar that translates cat utterances into human vocalizations. Just in case you don’t want to wait on the science to convert your cat’s meow into a howdy (or if you’d prefer to learn how to translate for yourself), read up on cat […]

Good for people, animals, and the planet, what’s stopping you from joining the global Meatless Monday movement?  Whether the holdup is kitchen confusion or reluctance to change, reading Eat Like You Care by Gary L. Francione and Ann Charlton just may change your life and help you change the world (and not just on Mondays).  If you’re considering […]

Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced.  What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. ~Ursula K. LeGuin In The Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall Krista Schyler begins by bringing the reader’s attention to a single moment with meticulous detail, as bison bulls […]

  Though one recent poll suggests there are more than 7 million vegetarians/vegans in the U.S., it’s easy to feel isolated when you’re part of about 7% of the population.  One recent report  revealed that “a large majority of former vegetarians/vegans (63%) said that they disliked that their diet made them stick out from the crowd.”  That […]