New York Ag-Gag Bill Dies

Douglas Doneson The New York “ag-gag” bill S 5172, designed to deter meth addicts from stealing anhydrous ammonia overdosed on reason and died today on the senate floor.  Maybe the New York state representatives realized that the majority of meth labs in this country have been outsourced to Mexico. Or maybe they realized that anhydrous [...]

Horse slaughter: What would Jesus do?

Kathleen Stachowski   Other Nations Proponents of horse slaughter have reared their heads again and are braying loudly. Why? Senate Bill 1176, The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, has been introduced into the 112th Congress with bipartisan support. This bill will ”…amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, [...]

University of Wisconsin is Violating the Honor Code, Oh and Animal Welfare Laws

Douglas Doneson The University of Wisconsin has slipped a measure into the state budget bill by way of the University System Omnibus Motion. Item 27:  Liability Protections for Scientific Researchers: Specify that current law provisions prohibiting crimes against animals would not apply to persons engaged in bona fide scientific research at an educational or research [...]

Goth kitten case: ‘common sense,’ not specificity, governs cruelty law

Kathleen Stachowski  Other Nations Black lipstick, white makeup, goth kitten. You missed the opportunity to get your dark groove on with a “pure black, tail-less, pierced, gothic kitten” accessory. Thank heavens. Pennsylvania’s state Superior Court upheld the conviction of a groomer ”…in last year’s infamous gothic-kitten case, ruling that ‘common sense’ – not specificity – governs [...]

Environmentalism & Factory Farming

David Cassuto Good article in GOOD Magazine on environmentalism and industrial agriculture featuring an interview w/me.

New York Ag-Gag Legislation

Douglas Doneson Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, and most recently New York have introduced bills designed to suppress undercover photojournalism which exposes food safety issues, criminal activity, and the abuses that occur behind the closed doors of the animal agribusiness. Although these bills have slightly different language, each one, if passed would criminalize the act of taking [...]

Our feet, our selves: Sentient animals and our feet

Kathleen Stachowski   Other Nations Feet…feet are on my mind. In a moment we’ll get down to the nitty-gritty, but for now, let’s just think about what our feet mean to us Homo sapiens. We love ‘em. They carry us through life, take us to amazing places, enable us to dance. We adorn them, tattoo them, encase [...]

The language of oppression and animal exploitation–time for a new and just vocabulary

Kathleen Stachowski   Other Nations Words matter. Language matters. You know this, I know this. Go ahead, google words create culture or language creates reality and see what you get–and you’ll get plenty. “While names, words, and language can be, and are, used to inspire us, to motivate us to humane acts, to liberate us, they can also be [...]