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When Lisa Vanderpump of Real Housewives fame and a nonvegan restaurateur is said by the  New York Times  to be championing "animal rights" for having dogs and running a dog rescue, you know there is a problem. For most nonhuman advocates, the term "anim…

Hunted Haunt the Hunter Sue Coe The recent Parkland, Florida school shooting has raised the specter of gun violence once again. And once again, politicians and pundits alike employ hunting rhetoric to absolve themselves and others of their own contribution to violence.…

Under the Skin by Michel Faber and Animals by Don LePan couldn't be more different as far as stories go, but both authors have managed to spin two unique and compelling narratives from one identical, unimaginable act. Animals  is a thought-provoking tale that tak…

Violent animal idiom: Kill two birds with one stone. As vegans, we're usually focused on our behaviors, forgetting that words have power, too. So much of our language is subconscious and mindless, and all too often it conforms to the speciesist notions we have been…

While at a wedding I was introduced to a couple whom I was told are "social vegetarians." Confused, I asked what that meant and learned that, unlike social drinkers who only consume alcohol when they go out, this couple abstains from meat at home and eats …

The view we have of animals can easily be summed up by my computer’s spell check. Each time I refer to a cow, chicken or pig in a story as a “who,” spell check quickly questions my usage and suggests I substitute a “what” or “that” instead. In an op-ed article regardin…