Go here to go to the Animals and Society Institute website and read my review of Elizabeth Hess’s new excellent book, Nim Chimpsky: The chimp who would be human.
The Grumpy Vegan has catalogued more than 1,600 books from the Stallwood Animal Rights Archive on LibraryThing. All animal-related books are catalogued. Cataloguing on non-animal related books (e.g., environment, politics, sociology, art, literature) is underway and, later, non-book animal-related material … Continue reading
One of the Grumpy Vegan’s four favourite historical figures from the animal rights movement, Edward Carpenter, is the subject of a new biography by historian Sheila Rowbotham. (The other three are Frances Power Cobbe, BUAV’s; Anna Kingsford, medical doctor and … Continue reading
The Grumpy Vegan congratulates Mandy Coe — sister of Sue Coe — for sharing the winning prize in the inaugural Manchester Poetry Prize. Lesley Saunders and Mandy Coe shared the £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize at the opening of Manchester Literature … Continue reading
Proposition 2 also marks a seminal moment for [Wayne] Pacelle, who, since he became the head of the Humane Society [of the United States] four years ago, has transformed America’s largest animal-welfare group — long known as a kindly protector … Continue reading
The Grumpy Vegan on the road always keeps an eye out for second-hand bookshops. During the recent US trip I was in Ann Arbor, MI working with my ASI colleague Bee Friedlander and took time out to search the book … Continue reading
