Eating Animals: Caring Is Not A Zero-Sum Game

Laurie David, 11.23.2009

Producer/Author

One of the many problems with Michiko Kakutani's lame and flamboyantly irrational New York Times review of Eating Animals is that it suggests her own irrelevancy.

Robert Rines: The Death of a Monster Hunter

Ben H. Winters, 11.11.2009

Coauthor of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

If there is a Loch Ness monster, she's feeling pretty good about herself right now. Robert H. Rines, the man who came closer than anyone to proving the existence of the fabled serpent, died last week at 87.

What You Can Learn From Your Cat

Wendy Diamond, 11.11.2009

TV Personality, Pet Lifestyle Expert, Animal Rescue Advocate

They enjoy the simple things: sleeping, eating, and meowing, so you will be surprised to discover that we can learn a lot from cats!

What Our Pets Know That We Don't

Lee Schneider, 11.10.2009

Founder of DocuCinema, a media production company in Santa Monica

We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures. Not only have they managed to negotiate free room and board for life, they also help people heal and have learned how to communicate with us using our own language.

Pet Abandonment Up, Adoption Down

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, 11.09.2009

For all the joy pets bring into our lives, they can be very expensive I want to share ways to save money and keep your four-legged family members.

Return to Sender: Stamping Out Cockfighting Magazines

Michael Markarian, 11.09.2009

EVP/COO, Humane Society of the United States

The fight to stamp out animal fighting marches on, and with renewed vigor. The HSUS and HSLF will not rest until holdout cockfighters in every state are delivered nothing but long felony prison sentences.

Winterizing Your Home And Pet!

Wendy Diamond, 11.04.2009

TV Personality, Pet Lifestyle Expert, Animal Rescue Advocate

When Jack Frost "nips" at your nose, he really bites hard! Certainly you don't want a sick puppy. Best to prepare your four-legged loved ones from the winter cold.

Fellating Female Fruit Bats

Frans de Waal, 11.03.2009

The fellatio story on bats is a bright spot in an otherwise miserable record that denies animals the pleasure principle, homosexuality, and other forms of non-reproductive sex.

The Adventures of Pumkin the Cat: Conclusion!

Maria Rodale, 10.30.2009

CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author

When Lou and I got home we rushed in, and there she was. She was filthy, had lost almost half her weight, and was covered in ticks.

How Seeing a Ghost This Weekend Can Win You $1 Million

Keith Thomson, 10.29.2009

Reporter and author

Anyone who can do so little as bend a fork or move a piece of bread with his mind or prove that anything psychic, supernatural or paranormal of any kind exists or ever has, gets a million bucks.

Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe, 10.29.2009

Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles

Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.

Animals Are Stupid

Ari Solomon, 10.28.2009

President and co-creator of the celebrated candle line A Scent of Scandal

We believe that because animals can't write a book, compose a symphony, or do algebra that we're so much better than them. What a load of bullshit.

A Halloween Story: The Adventures of Pumkin the Cat

Maria Rodale, 10.28.2009

CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author

We searched all over for Pumkin. We drove around the mountain. We asked the neighbors if she'd been spotted. We went to the local animal shelter and looked for her.

Halloween Story: The Adventures of Pumkin the Cat

Maria Rodale, 10.26.2009

CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author

When you're sick, there's nothing like a good adventure story to take your mind off things. But this is no made-up story. It's the very absolute true story of a cat named Pumkin.

Helping Vets, Pets, and Primates

Michael Markarian, 10.22.2009

EVP/COO, Humane Society of the United States

Congress took two steps in recent days on animal issues, as part of its larger bills related to the Department of Defense and military spending.

Critters Need Saving Too: Volunteer Marine Mammal Rescue in Malibu

Neil Zevnik, 10.22.2009

That's me, with a week-old harbor seal pup whose mother has vanished, leaving him stranded and hungry. Cute, huh? And without someone to scoop him...

What Animals Teach Us About What It Means To Be Human

Michael Macher, 10.22.2009

What if you found yourself without a vocabulary with which to express the immediacy of your experience? Well, then you might know what it feels like to be an animal living in a world dominated by Homo sapiens.

What We Can Learn From Animals

Rita Mae Brown, 10.16.2009

Social activist, bestselling author - her new book Animal Magnetism is on-sale in October

Out of this happy life lived with animals, I have learned some important animal facts. You may have realized them also and your own affection for creatures has shot up accordingly.

The Scientists' Bark

G.A. Bradshaw, 10.15.2009

The author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity examines new findings from primatology and neurobiology.

Sir Roger Moore Won't Let Friends Eat Foie Gras

Bruce Friedrich, 10.16.2009

Vice President, Policy

Sir Roger Moore has spent the past several years going after those who make their living by force-feeding ducks and geese, often until their livers burst, to create foie gras - French for "fatty liver."

Morals Without God

Frans de Waal, 10.12.2009

After listening to the debate between Bill O'Reilly and Richard Dawkins, it struck me again that the resistance to evolutionary theory largely stems from the illusion that without God there can be no morality.