Showing posts with label Animal Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animal Rights. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Victorian Snobbery on the Animal Estate

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A book worth reading is The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age  by Harriet Ritvo [Harvard University ...
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Sunday, March 03, 2019

The Strange Fruit of Class Warfare

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In The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age,  author Harriet Ritvo [Harvard University Press, 1989 ] poi...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Terriers for Sale: Pets, Rosettes and Workers All

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Legendary terriermen ? Certainly! Were they selling legendary dogs? Perhaps. Perhaps not. If a dog is excellent at age two and hal...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

The Real Threat to Hunting

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A repost from this blog, July 2004. For hunters, fluttering orange tape and popsicle-colored sticks mean only one thing: Doom . This ...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Clash of Opinions is Actually a Clash of Knowledge

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In Heartsblood: Hunting, Spirituality and Wildness in America, David Peterson notes that back in 1978 Yale University behavioral scientist ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Darwin at the Westminster Dog Show

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Charles Darwin was born 209 years ago today. One hundred and fifty three years ago, Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species , o...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

PeTA Hates Women, Trolls for Serial Killers

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I read a lot of stuff , and one of the blogs in my Google Reader is the always-edgey and smart PZ Meyers who writes the Pharyngula blog , wh...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Face of Terrorism

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I don't have much tolerance for terrorists of any kind , whether they are Christian , Muslim , Jewish , Hindu or merely old-fashioned r...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Who Rescued the Beagles and Why?

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A beagle rescue story has slowly unfolded in my email box over the last week, but since there seems to be some confusion as to who rescued t...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

My Justice Would Be Swift and Done With a Sword

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A reader of this blog writes : I read your blog every day and while I haven't as yet commented on any posts I am always interested i...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Donald McCaig on Pedigrees and Paranoia Politics

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Donald McCaig Donald McCaig is a working sheep dog man from Highland County, Virginia, a noted author of such New York Times best se...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Public Floggings for Anyone Cruel to Animals!

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The great Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA. In late November of 1880 ,  a meeting was called at Cooper Union in New York City, with a p...
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