MythWatch offers an in-depth analysis of the ways the humane myth plays out in the media, obscuring the reality of what happens to animals used for human purposes and of the long term effects on our culture, human health, and our environment. It also explores the public confusion and conflict of interest issues that develop when animal advocacy organizations involved in animal advocacy become involved with promoting alternative "humane" animal products.
Jul 2008 A Farm Boy Reflects Do the dramatic contradictions expressed in this article reveal an underlying struggle to overcome the guilt associated with complicity in the harm and killing of others? ...more
Apr 2007 Gone 7 in 10 biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence...In a staggering forecast, Wilson predicts that our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all plant and animal species by the year 2100....more
Feb 2008 Guess Who's Coming As Dinner? Is the blurring of the identity of animal sanctuaries and "humane farms" a natural consequence of animal advocacy groups purposely co-mingling their language with that of the "progressive" side of the animal-using industries?...more
Nov 2007 HFS flees the coop for sustainability Does the need to "close the sale" on "cage-free" eggs drive well-meaning advocates to join the animal-using industry in deliberately misleading the public?...more
Aug 2007 Why Vegetarians are Eating Meat If intelligent and caring people are now being convinced to resume eating animal products for reasons of conscience, hasn‘t something gone terribly wrong in the animal advocacy movement?
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Apr 2007 Veal to Love, Without the Guilt D‘Agostino, the 20-store supermarket chain in New York, said that its sales of veal have jumped 35 percent since it began carrying "certified humane" veal only....more
Oct 2006 Invasion of the Movement Snatchers We should be concerned that today‘s animal movement so closely resembles the vision of moral compromise, division and debilitation put forth by an industry PR consultant....more
Sep 2007 Veal, without the cruelty Is putting groups of calves in a pen with an unrelated "retired" dairy cow a realistic way to address the physical and emotional trauma of being taken from one‘s mother shortly after birth?...more
