The following is an outside perspective on the realities of dairy farming in response to the recent PETA ‘undercover’ video on one of the Land ‘o Lakes supplying dairies. Cathy Mills of Catren’s Shar-pei is the original author and retains all rights on this commentary. Re-printed with permission
She outlines the challenges much better than I [...]
The reminders for went out last week for the Humane Society of the United States TAFA event. Entitled “Taking Action For Animals,” the aim of the conference from sponsor list to schedule of events shows quite a different plan.
The HSUS appears to be becoming much more comfortable with the label Animal Rights very recently. It [...]
As many readers know, the issue of how the Humane Society of the United States continues to maintain its 501(c) 3 tax-exempt status is one I have found continually perplexing. After further review of the HSUS tax filings, I have a new question.
“Did the Humane the United States fail to account for Political and/or Lobbying activity of [...]
Many who read this site know I often draw inspiration from Twitter in addition to media and other blogs. The appeal of Twitter lies in the capturing of real-time responses to a wide-variety of conversations and thoughts by individuals and organizations across the broad spectrum of perspectives related to the human-animal relationship.
This is why I [...]
I’ve been fortunate to have begun participating in an eye-opening meeting of minds, known in the Twitter-verse as Agchat. A growing group primarily composed of farmers and others associated with agriculture. Where else can one gain perspective on the challenges facing farmers today, some of who are literally twittering from their tractors while they prepare for [...]
In light of some significant misinformation being spread about the source of the current swine flu outbreak, I thought I’d put together some basic information on virus development for the everyday person.
The keeping of groups of animals in close proximity does not create a breeding ground for viruses that affect humans. Keeping groups of animals in close [...]
In reading more news articles condemning “commercial breeders”, which now seems to include anyone who ever breeds a pet, I continuously see references to ‘defects’, ‘genetic conditions’, health problems and calls for a crackdown on people breeding ‘defective pets’. So I have to ask, how many people do you meet in a day that are free [...]
“There’s a sucker born every minute” ‘Everyone’ knows that this was said by the great circus man P T Barnum. The funny thing is, the quote was actually attributed to Barnum by a rival trying to turn customers against him. In the attempt to make Barnum’s customers potential customers believe Barnum saw them as suckers, he demonstrated his [...]
Two contrasting articles on hunting made themselves through my email today, one praising hunting and another demonizing it. In the reading I am reminded of the simple honesty of hunting and agriculture, the lack of self-deception and eternal optimism of hunters and farmers. Hunters and farmers live with a basic truth that most avoid and deny; survival requires [...]
