For those of you with a flair for fashion, you might consider entering the 2nd Annual Fur Free Fashion Competition — a project of Born Free USA and E Magazine. According to the website,…
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As someone with a background in performing arts and (obviously) a current passion for animal rights, I have a special fondness for those who find a way to bridge the two. Like Liz Peterson of Dancing for…
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The DePaul Center for Animal Law has issued a call for papers in conjunction with it’s upcoming symposium, entitled Revisiting the Line Between Free Speech and Obscenity: U.S. v. Stevens and its Implications for…
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It was intriguing to hear that plaintiffs in Gentry County, Missouri were awarded $11,000,000 by a state court jury in a nuisance action based on the stench from a local hog farm. It was even more fascinating to…
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Episode 8: “The truth will set you free, but first …”
Posted on 06. Mar, 2010 by Jasmin and Mariann.
Welcome to the eighth podcast episode of Our Hen House!
In today’s episode, we will discuss our current flirtation with yoga, and the importance of finding a way to take care of your body that comports with your values. We…
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Jordana Reim of Planet Verge has put together a video series called “Going Vegan.” In it, she challenged The Lives of Famous Men drummer, Dylan Mandel, to go vegan for one month and document…
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Don’t you just love when people say, “Oh you’re vegan — you can’t eat chocolate …”
Actually, my middle name is Chocolate. And if I ever had a child, I would name it Chocolate. Or maybe not, because it wouldn’t…
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Here is an important Call for Papers brought to you by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.
The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) seeks essays from women of color scholars and activists across
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My hairdresser recently decided to open his own salon, and, knowing I’m an animal activist, he was excited to tell me that the products he planned to use were all cruelty-free. (I find it almost humorous when people waffle for…
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I am writing this from the Brooklyn Heights Public Library, where I am retina-deep in a book called Bacon’s Magazine Directory (unfortunate name, I know). The book — which, incidentally, is so insanely heavy that just carrying…
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Episode 7: “… thoughtful committed citizens can change the world …”
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by Jasmin and Mariann.
Welcome to the seventh podcast episode of Our Hen House!
In today’s episode, we will discuss what’s mean and what’s green about eco-tourism. Then, we’ll talk about some meat-industry folks who have come up with a great slogan – one you’ll…
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There is no doubt that Avatar has tapped into something deep in the way that people feel about their world. Though members of the animal community, by and large, have given much serious thought to many of…
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Eco-tourism has been of great interest to me lately. Though it’s always been on my radar, I really started to focus on it after I received an email last fall from VegNews Magazine Managing Editor, Elizabeth Castoria, asking whether, although she…
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“The Dosa Man” (or, Thiru Kumar — though he prefers the former) serves the best Indian food I’ve ever tasted. His vegan business, “NY Dosas,” is run from a food cart (one of the very few in NYC — nothing like…
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It’s sadly ironic when food drives bring in animal products, particularly when — as hundreds of millions of people go hungry each year — much of the world’s harvest is fed to animals instead of people. Inefficiency…
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Anyone who has ever come to either Mariann or me for advice on what animal advocacy career path they should consider taking, we have pretty much answered like this: “PR.” Here’s why, in a nutshell: If you take any effort…
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While most of the opportunities to help animals, as well as the tools and resources available to do so, that we write about here at Our Hen House are, we hope, important and useful, they are not always adventures of a lifetime. We would like to…
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One of the most fundamental relationships in society is the one between the human animal and the non-human animal. Yet, shockingly, this relationship goes largely unexplored in academia. As we work to end the subjugation of and cruelty to animals, a…
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Welcome to the sixth podcast episode of Our Hen House!
In today’s episode, we will discuss Ellen DeGeneres’ role in Jasmin’s nightlife, which, oddly enough, will lead us into a discussion of children’s TV. (Should you call it children’s TV…
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Film is perhaps the most useful tool that animal advocates have when educating others about the horrors of animal cruelty. Or, at least, I think so, since it was footage of animal exploitation that ultimately inspired me — on the spot —…
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One thing that we, as animal advocates, need to be armed with is cold hard facts. Lucky for us, there are myriad ways to come about these, since it not an opinion that animal exploitation is destroying the planet, plaguing…
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