Animals in the Blogs: The Great June Roundup, June 21-29

Published June 30, 2009 @ 04:03PM PT

So, soooo long. And they take a really long time to compile when I let them build up like this too. So for your benefit as well as my own, I'll make sure to get back onto an at-least-once-a-week schedule now.

On Cat Killers and Mental Competency from Animal Person

Mute Swans--Scapegoat for the Chesapeake Marsh Grasses from Invisible Voices

Yet Another Example of Moral Schizophrenia from the Abolitionist Approach (on the comparison of great white sharks to Hannibal Lecter)

10 Simple Ways to Advocate for Animals from Striking at the Roots

Libbie and Louie, A Love Story from Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary (in case you missed it when I wrote about it and linked to it here)

Justice to the Max from the ALDF Blog

-More than a dozen more after the jump-

Animal Cruelty and Domestic Violence: Making the Connection to Protect Animals and People from Advocacy for Animals

Friends of Animals Win: African Antelope Shielded From Safari Club and Trophy Tourists from Friends of Animals

"But Meat Tastes Good" from Vegan Soapbox

Operation Pancake: Undercover Investigation of LA Vegan Restaurants from QuarryGirl.com (this has been BIG news across the blogosphere and Twitterverse since the post went up a couple days ago)

Proposed Ban on Exotic Animals in Westchester Hits Wall (of Legislators) from Animal Blawg

Let Live 2009 Recap from Liberation BC

A Disturbing Partnership from Abolitionist Approach

In Support of (Some) Farmers and Big Ag Guilty of Treason Against Planet from Digging through the Dirt

Thought-Provoking PETA Exhibit from SuperVegan (with a thought-provoking comment thread too)

Things You Can Do to Help Bees from Planetsave (for the record, no, I do not support keeping bees so that you can take their honey, but there are other good non-honey-related tips here too)

On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal from Animal Person (this smart post covers issues related to what I wrote about in the recent "Compassionate Hypocrite" post)

Do All Vegans Need to Be Friends? from Vegans of Color

Becoming a Witness from Vegan Soapbox

The Best in Vegan Education from Animal Person (on Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home)

Bird on a Wire: The Electrocution of Wild Birds from Advocacy for Animals

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I am sorry that you had closed your comment to the 'Kids Killing Animals' blog article. Are you only permitted to have so many comments, or to keep open the area for so long? I hope this is not the case; I would argue for you to be allowed to have open debate, not leaving one point as an ending or defining point to which no one could respond. I hope you are not being limited in this matter.

Posted by William Cosgrove on 06/30/2009 @ 04:48PM PT
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No, William, I am not limited in the ways you mentioned. But I do close comments sometimes when a conversation has clearly run its course, when it's gone completely off-track, or when it's become too charged to be productive anymore. There are times when I have to make a judgment call there.

Posted by Stephanie Ernst on 06/30/2009 @ 08:20PM PT
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As always, thanks for doing all the research for us with these roundup blogs.

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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.