NARD: A requiem for mothers and their babies.

NARD: A requiem for mothers and their babies.

A fair number of requests and invitations manage to make their way onto my Facebook News Feed and Personal Page. I am happy about this because they help me to keep abreast of what is current and happening in the world of veganism and AR activism. The downside is that I simply cannot respond to and/or attend them all. So when my good friend and fellow AR activist, Karen Messier asked me if I would like to accompany …

The Life and Death of Harambe: Captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo

The Life and Death of Harambe: Captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo

As with the murder of any animal under the so called “protection” of humans, nothing seems to cause public outrage more, particularly among AR activists, than the killing of Harambe, a  17 year old  Western-lowland silverback gorilla held captive at the Cincinnati  Zoo. Anyone who is on Social Media most likely is aware of the gruesome and freakish details. While in the care of his parents, a little boy “climbed over a 3-foot-tall railing, then walked through an …