Posts by Tracy H
Real Animal Lovers Don't Support Murder of Animals
Published September 16, 2009 @ 06:36AM PT
A site for online vet-tech schools Monday released a list of the "top 50 blogs for animal lovers."
As one might expect, the list featured two blogs from The Humane Society of the United States and one from the ASPCA.
Surprisingly, though, the compilation also consisted of animal-rights blogs, including this one -- Congratulations, Stephanie! -- and a category devoted to vegan blogs.
But curiously sites that support the murder of animals also made the list of "blogs for animal lovers." One is a blog devoted to agricultural law. The others are listed in the "Farm Animals" category.
"Human Exceptionalism" Exceptionally Arrogant
Published July 16, 2009 @ 12:35PM PT
Friends, I've landed in Los Angeles, and I'm now writing to you from a hotel lobby computer while waiting to check in. I have a lovely story to share with you later tonight or tomorrow morning about the flight here, but in the meantime, please enjoy this smart, thoughtful guest post from Tracy Habenicht, author of the always thought-provoking blog Digging Through the Dirt. -S. Ernst
For hundreds of years white men have lived as if the Earth and its inhabitants and resources were theirs for the taking.
Animals were beneath them, people of color were reduced to "savages," and the land was stripped and degraded. White men placed themselves on the top rung of the planet's hierarchy.
Much of that belief exists today in the form of "human exceptionalism," what "bioethicist" and animal-rights opponent Wesley J. Smith defines as "the view that ultimate moral value comes with being a member of the human species."
Women and people of color are now included next to white men, at least by definition, but animals and nature are still looked down upon.
