‘For Patrick’: She worked in animal research, now she’s blocked from commenting on it
‘For Patrick’: She worked in animal research, now she’s blocked from commenting on it
RACHEL WEINER: For a long time, Madeline Krasno didn’t tell other animal rights advocates that she had worked in a monkey research lab as a college student. It had taken her years to understand her nightmares and fragmented memories as signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. And some activists could be vicious to former lab workers. But four years after she graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Krasno started posting online about her experiences. Eventually, she started tagging the school in those posts and then commenting on its pages. Many of those comments disappeared. As she would later learn, […]
DEVIL IN A SKIRT: U.S. Governor writes about killing her dog, goat, and other animals in new book
DEVIL IN A SKIRT: U.S. Governor writes about killing her dog, goat, and other animals in new book
MARTIN PENGELLY: In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip. But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own. “Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used […]
The Thinking Vegan: ‘My interest lies in animal liberation, not making more vegans’
The Thinking Vegan: ‘My interest lies in animal liberation, not making more vegans’
GARY SMITH: The main mission in the animal rights movement at present is towards creating more vegans. Sadly, this obsession has caused us to subordinate animal liberation. It has also created a mentality of “do whatever it takes” to make more vegans. This mentality has moved us away from the ethical/animal argument and more toward health, consumer lifestyle and environmentalism. This has created enormous compromises in the both the message and the outreach. For instance, there is an inordinate amount of attention paid to celebrities who have gone “vegan” – meaning celebrities who have made a self-serving choice to eat […]
