Love Animals? 9 Animal Rights Organization Blogs for Your Weekend Reading
by Britt BravoMaybe it's the fact that I've been spending a lot of time with our cat this week, or because I've been trying out a bunch of recipes from my Veganomicon cookbook, but I've been thinking a lot about animals lately.
Do we want a second pet? Would I enjoy being a vegetarian, or vegan again? How long will polar bears be around?
While mulling these questions, I surfed through a variety of animal rights organizations' blogs thanks to Stephanie Ernst's post, Major Players in Animal Rights: Organizations, on the Change.org's Animal Rights Blog.Thought I'd share some of the blogs that caught my eye with all of you fellow animal lovers (:
• ASPCA Blog
• Born Free USA Blog
• Gene Baur's Bloggings, President and Co-founder of Farm Sanctuary's blog
• Lib Now!, the Institute for Critical Animal Studies blog
• MFA Blog, Mercy for Animals' blog
• The PETA Files
• Sanctuary Trails, the Farm Sanctuary blog
• The Vegetarian Resource Group Blog
• Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States' blog
Photos by me.
BlogHer Contributing Editor, Britt Bravo, also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good, WE tv's WE Volunteer blog, The Extraordinaries, and the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog. She is a Big Vision Consultant.
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Hugging a Dead Chicken
On the topic of animals and respect, I had to share this. On Friday night, we decided to relax at home and roast a whole chicken for dinner. I began the prep work without second thought, quickly unwrapping and washing it before its visit to the oven. When I went to pat it dry, a wave of emotion washed over me. I felt sad for its pain and even sadder by the way I was treating it. Its skin was incredibly soft and its wings felt like the arms of an infant. When I picked it up, it hung limp under its weight, completely plucked clean and heartlessly pricked with a built in thermometer.
I sobbed. Sobbed in respect and with profound sadness for its suffering. My eyes opened.
Has anyone else experienced this connection?
http://www.thecluelesscrafter.com/
Intense
Hi clueless crafter,
Wow. That is an intense story. I've heard many stories like that from people who become vegetarian. The worst was from a woman who as a girl had to eat the rabbit she had been playing with earlier at a family farm for dinner.
First of all, I love Steph
First of all, I love Steph at Change.org! She's fabulous!! Second..great list of AR organizations..and I totally get where cluelesscrafter is coming from. Even though I've been vegan for almost 4 years now, just watching someone else prep a chicken or steak makes my heart ache for the life that was lost and the torture it had to endure in order to finally find peace in death. It not only makes me sad for the animal in question, but the person as well..that they fail to feel the compassion towards the life that died for their taste buds.
"Silence gives consent."
The Innocent Primate Vegan Blog
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Innocent Primate
I'm glad you shared the link to your blog. It seems like a good resource for vegans. What do you think of VegNews? I'm trying to decide whether or not to subscribe.