(or… Our Blindspot for Animals) For over 150 years now, leading Western thinkers have been pondering The Nature Question, i.e.: What is to be our place in nature? Most of them have questioned our Western tradition of seeing ourselves as masters over nature. A good many have written about our … READ MORE
Dreams of Times Bygone and Those to Come Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I,
For if I do, he’s sure to cry. … READ MORE
The Key to Coming to Terms With Nature Conference Workshop—Animal Experimentation: Health, Environment, Law, Ethics
I have chosen to talk to you about the importance of The Animal Question. If you are wondering, the Animal Question is not: “Honey, should we have steak or chicken?”
The Animal Question is shorthand for all … READ MORE
Animal Rights is in the air, so much so that the term borders on becoming a buzzword and the cause itself the latest form of radical chic. Although Lewis Gompertz, Henry S. Salt, and others put forth radically different views on attitudes and relations toward other animals more than a … READ MORE