When the lowest form of predators start threatening to leave the state we know we’re doing something right. The Bobcat Protection Act of 2013 is meant to keep one species of the state’s few remaining mega-fauna from going the way of the California jaguar, wolf and our very own state animal, [...]

Non-human people the world over are cheering India’s decision to ban captive dolphin shows. Citing tireless scientific research that has forced scientists to conclude that cetaceans – dolphins, whales and porpoises – rival our own species in terms of intelligence, self consciousness and culture, the Indian Ministry of the Environment [...]

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge, The Idea of Progress Torturing animals for [...]

Apparently we’ve been burning thousands of mice for nothing. A new study, being called the most comprehensive of its kind, concluded that mice make exceptionally poor models of human inflammation. The results of this study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calls our  current process of [...]

A school in New York has become the first all-vegetarian traditional public school in the country.  Yes, public. I can only imagine the disbelief saturating the smoke-filled air of dark-room discussions among the top brass of the meat industry. At least, that’s the way I picture it. But I really [...]

The Endangered Species Act is not a right to life, as the Federal government likes to prove time again when it guns down entire wolf packs from helicopters for minor livestock depredations. But, it is some measure of protection against being slaughtered en masse so sexually frustrated miscreants can “get [...]

Last year the California legislature passed SB 1221, which bans using packs of dogs to chase bears and bobcats during hunting. This year, another California politician has introduced a bill, AB 1230, to overturn the ban. Sounds like a nice thing to ban. I can think of few things more [...]

Laws making it illegal to document animal abuse or food-safety violations on farms are taking the nation by storm. There’s nothing like a proposed ag-gag law in California to burst my little bubble of faith in a progressive-thinking state. I was floored when I got the email asking for an [...]

“Please, don’t you rock my boat. ’Cause I don’t want my boat to be rockin’.” Bob Marley As cool and laid back as I’d like to be known, I have slowly come to the realization that I am the biggest party pooper around. As my oldest daughter’s fourth birthday party [...]

If a recently introduced bill is passed by the Russian government, the country would join Costa Rica and a few other African nations in making killing animals for fun, AKA hunting, largely illegal. I dismissed the news that the Russian government was even considering a total ban on sport hunting [...]