Lobsters in Germany took fate into their own claws and broke out of an Asian supermarket. They now face a brighter future in an animal home. Dozens of lobsters destined to be boiled alive made a successful getaway from an … Continue reading
The Grumpy Vegan launched The Descartes Awards because he’s tired of human supremacists who argue that animals are, well, animals and humans are a higher form of life because we shop. Rene Descartes was the seventeenth century French philosopher who … Continue reading
The Grumpy Vegan lives in Baltimore and in a neighborhood, Canton, which abuts (well, almost) the Johns Hopkins University and its medical school. In 1888 Hopkins appointed William Osler to be the university’s first physician-in-chief and professor of medicine. He … Continue reading
Scientists at the University of S. Andrews in Fife, Scotland studying in Nigeria found that putty-nosed monkeys “share the uniquely human ability to string utterances together to convey messages.” Primate psychologists identified two call types – “pyows” and “hacks” – … Continue reading
