Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesThis video came across my path today: YouTube – Ducks who Truck. Cute, but I pray this does NOT inspire people to go out and get a duck as a pet!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T!!! Every year I get people … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI try not to take anything for granted, but I see coyotes almost every day – there are at least 3 distinct groups that live around our place. We try our best to co-exist. In the 20 years we’ve been … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI live about 15 minutes from the city limits. That means that part of my drive includes highway, secondary highway, and country roads, paved and not. One of the things I love about the drive home is that during the … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesWe are making a mess of our planet. Whether you are a “believer” in the so-called ‘settled science’ of Climate Change or one of those heretics that the Movement derisively refers to as a ‘denialist’, most people would agree, however … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesMany people seem to believe that every natural place should be available for recreation, and that all other uses should defer to them. People who try to raise animals ethically and naturally repeatedly come under fire, but I don’t see all of North America going vegan any time soon, so eventually, the ONLY way left to raise animals for meat will be through factory farms.
Continue readingApproximate Reading Time: 13 minutesMy husband and I had dinner with a friend last night whom we both like and respect a great deal. We talked about many things, among them our attitudes about the human use of animals. My friend is a vegan, and we’re not.
I struggle with the moral issues involved and so I continued to think about this after dropping our friend off at his hotel. I try very hard to be logical and reasonable in my arguments. I suspect I may have not succeeded entirely on this one. But neither did my friend.
Continue readingApproximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThose who no longer have a connection with nature, with the animals whose lives we take for our food, and those who don’t live with animals, have lost something that in the end will turn out to have been very … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutesI don’t usually do this, but this is a response to another blog, found here. The piece I am commenting on is part of a larger post about what Canadian troops are doing in Afghanistan. It is in support of … Continue reading