Harvest.
The reaping machine whirred and chugged in ever-decreasing circles round the last patch of standing corn. Sweating village women in cotton overalls and gumboots stooked the cut wheat. Men in...
View ArticleThe Shooter.
What do you see when you shoot? Do you see a mother who starved herself, For her hatchlings, in the spring? Waiting for the buds and catkins to ripen, While she pecked dutifully, For insects, for her...
View ArticleFrom Animals to Anarchism.
Kevin Watkinson & Dónal O’Driscoll. Open letter, first published in Dysophia, October 2014. From Animals to Anarchism challenges those involved in animal activism to sort their politics out if...
View ArticleWhy I set up a petition to call on the Catholic Church to do more for animals.
By Virginia Bell. For 2000 years the Catholic Church has virtually ignored issues about how animals have a right to our sense of justice, compassion and morality. Animals are almost never mentioned...
View ArticleWaking up to Sheepism in The Year of The Sheep. By Heidi Stephenson, with...
Humans are clever when it comes to concocting prejudices about other animals. Demonization, belittling and objectification are self-serving tools that help to cut off compassion and empathy, and to...
View ArticleThe Derision of Empathy. By Heidi Stephenson.
“Old English softe; yielding, gentle, mild, agreeable.” I have a soft spot for animals; I am soft on my nonhuman kin. As soft as a baby’s bottom. A typical example of the softer sex: Accused of being...
View ArticleTo Do This Thing – a poem for the hunted.
To do this to such a thing that was, this morning, so fine a thing, so red and real a thing, so running free a thing; to do this thing to such a thing so that now, this evening, it is no more a thing...
View ArticleFriends and Nonhuman Animals
Every year in animal agriculture worldwide, we kill 65 000 000 000 land based animals. Where do Quakers stand with respect to these animals and their lives, and the lives of animals generally? This...
View ArticleReview: Rigor Mortis
Rigor Mortis by Richard Harris Basic Books, 2017 ISBN: 9780465097906 Quaker Concern for Animals are pleased to feature the following review and commentary from our patron, Andre Menache, BSc(Hons) BVSc...
View ArticleEaster Bunny
Photo by Maggie Eiseman-Renyard I am the thing that is the spring I am the streaking flash of white tail disappearing, confounding your sight as into my hole I goes, into my hole in the ground. Its...
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