I think if I wore a swan around my neck I would sing like Bjork too.The Grumpy Vegan never did like the pretentious, affected and screeching voice of Bjork. And, now, there’s another reason to peer disdainfully down one’s nose at her and that ugly nonvegan swan costume. She is Icelandic and Iceland is resuming the commercial hunting of whales. We don’t really need another reason to boycott Bjork. But we’ve got one. Norway is on my shit list, too. It’s the only other country to hunt commercially. Might as well add Japan to the list. They say their whaling is scientific. Yeah, right. Me and my few dollars won’t be going in their direction any time soon. I wish now I never bought my 88 Honda that sits outside my house. It is remarkable, however, that it just keeps on going.
Kim Stallwood is an independent scholar and author on animal rights. His forthcoming book, Animal Dharma, explores what it means to care deeply about animals. Starting in 1976, he has held leadership positions with some of the world’s foremost organisations in the UK and US, including CIWF, BUAV, PETA, The Animals’ Agenda, Animals and Society Institute and Minding Animals International. A vegetarian since 1974 when as a student he worked in a chicken slaughterhouse. A vegan since 1976. His evil twin is the Grumpy Vegan.
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Kim Stallwood's forthcoming book explores what it means to care deeply about animals and discovers how we can live peacefully with ourselves and others by proposing four key values: truth, compassion, nonviolence and interbeing.
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