by Jane Broccolo | Jul 28, 2013 | All Posts, Animal Rights
Even the mere concept of buying a dog seems ethically repulsive when you can instead rescue a pedigree from a shelter for a couple of hundred or less. A pure animal rights person would never give a penny to an upscale reputable breeder. It’s a strict moral issue...
by Jane Broccolo | Jul 9, 2013 | All Posts, Animal Communication, Animal Rights
Do you keep your cats indoors because you’d rather be safe than sorry? I sympathize with you, but… How would you feel if you were confined to house arrest all your life for a crime you never committed? To paraphrase Anabel, the safe, but sorry indoor...
by Jane Broccolo | Jun 9, 2013 | All Posts, Animal Rights, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self
I just signed a petition asking Air France to stop transporting primates for research labs. Not that any of us are totally innocent of the extreme cruelty inflicted on animals more or less a strand or two away from being human. Using primates, or any feeling,...
by Jane Broccolo | Aug 26, 2010 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, Animal Rights, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self
A friend was telling me how great he thinks the human spirit is in reference to the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. It’s amazing how amazed people are when they see how people, after suffering horrific trauma, eventually feel reborn – empowered...
by Jane Broccolo | Feb 6, 2010 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, Animal Rights, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self
Narrator Alan Alda, makes a feeble attempt to make us feel good about defiling the world in the recent PSB video, “The Human Spark” that shows us we have two brain functions–insight and imagination–that separate us from (other)animals.Wrong. I...
by Jane Broccolo | Feb 14, 2009 | All Posts, Animal Rights, The Human-Animal Connection
Rod Lurie says in his online Huffingtonpost article that the film, “The Reader,” is a denial of the accountability and memorability of the Nazi’s industrialized slaughter of Jews during the Holocaust. As if there is only one holocaust we should be...
