people of faith engaging creation and justice
Nice to see a video from inside a dairy farm that doesn’t feature beating and brutality. But this may be taking things too far…
This news from, of all places, the Guardian. I know others here disagree but it confirms my suspicion that (a) it’s going to happen and (b) the best approach is to fight for strict regulatory control, rather than full moratoria…
Wayne Pacelle (Head of the Humane Society USA) and Nathan Runkle (Mercy for Animals founder) in one weekend… not bad! We could do this in Ithaca if we ever got our acts (and fundraising) together…
I drive through Pennsylvania regularly now (commuting to Pittsburgh) and on almost every trip I encounter cavalcades of heavy trucks headed for fracking sites. It’s ugly, no doubt, and it slows traffic and may be damaging the roads. But, even in a nearby NY county (where fracking is still illegal) there are economic benefits it [...]
Check out Mercy for Animals’ new commercials below. I wonder: is this kind of thing effective, or does it just harden hearts?
This is good news. Down by a pound a year!
Or in one university in the South, at least. Go North Texas! (Didn’t think I’d ever utter that particular phrase.)
Go Bill! (Though, admittedly, the photo that the LA Times attached to the story doesn’t make him look all that healthy.)
Hydro-fracking headlines the Ithaca Journal today; apparently a lot of New Yorkers are still undecided on the issue, even as the industry continues to swap big bucks for development rights in Pennsylvania’s portion of the Marcellus. We were traveling around the Finger Lakes last week, staying in various B&B’s and campgrounds. Kristen and I noticed [...]
Nothing to do with food justice, but it’s good to see philosophy students and faculty putting both their bodies and their minds on the line for a worthy cause. In Berlin I spent some time in the foyer to the Humboldt University, where there is a Cold War era mural with large-gold-lettering facing you as [...]
