Month: April 2009
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The First Dog
This is all I’m going to say about Bo Obama, the first family’s new non-rescue, non-shelter dog: see more dog and puppy pictures (And yes, I have purebred dogs myself, but no, I wouldn’t get another dog from a breeder. Our next family member will be from a shelter or a rescue, it might even…
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Does One-Click Activism Work?
Via Erik Marcus I came to an excellent blog post by Mark Hawthorne, who takes on a question I’ve often wondered about: Is One-Click Activism Effective? You’ve almost certainly seen one-click activism: you get an email, click on a link, and send a pre-written message to a pre-selected legislator or other politician. It’s activism made…
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Bittman (sort of) gets it
Mark Bittman’s a columnist for the NY times, and is getting lots of attention recently for his new book Food Matters. He’s essentially urging a plant-based diet, though he consistently stops short of encouraging people to go fully vegan as that would be “difficult” and/or “unpopular.” I’ve also never seen him really acknowledge – perhaps…
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New Blog from Farm Sanctuary: Making Hay
New blog from the folks at Farm Sanctuary, focused on activism: Check it out and subscribe to their feed for ongoing updates!
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Teabaggin’
Doesn’t anyone at Fox News know how to use the Urban Dictionary?
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PCRM on Food Subsidies
Jo forwarded this to me a while back but I never got around to blogging it: Health Versus Pork: Congress Debates the Food Bill. It originally appeared in the Autumn 2007 Good Medicine magazine from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, but the primary point it makes is still valid today: government food subsidies are…