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A Rescued Goat Gets a Chance for a Normal Life |
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May 1, 2008
They are both amputees: She lost part of her right leg to bone cancer
at the age of 10, and he lost part of his left leg four months ago
because of an injury he most likely suffered at a Brooklyn
slaughterhouse.
Her name is Jenny Brown, and she is a 36-year-old television
producer turned animal rights advocate. His name is Albie, and he is a
goat of unknown age and breed.
They met last August, after Albie
was plucked from Prospect Park and taken to the animal sanctuary Ms.
Brown has owned here since 2004. Albie was malnourished and sickly at
the time, his mouth covered in sores, his leg and hoof badly infected,
Ms.
Brown recalled. His injuries seemed to indicate that he had been
hogtied before he broke free and made his way to the park.
Ms.
Brown said that she tried to save Albie’s leg, treating it with
ointments and homeopathic remedies, but that the wound would not heal.
In December, Albie’s leg was amputated just above the knee.
He
is now awaiting a prosthesis, a very rare indulgence for a farm animal.
And the same technician who fitted Ms. Brown with a new artificial leg
is also designing Albie's.
"I've been an amputee for most of my
life, but I can run a farm, I can wrestle animals, I can carry bales of
hay, thanks to modern prosthetics," Ms. Brown said. "I thought it would
be only fair to give Albie the same chance to live a normal life."
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PAWs organizes 'Meatless Mondays' |
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April 30, 2008
Even the most devout of carnivores can be a vegetarian one day a week,
and Princeton Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) president Jenny Palmer '09
has been recruiting students for "Meatless Mondays" this semester to
show just that.
Since
the start of spring semester, 153 students have signed the online
pledge to abstain from meat once a week, Palmer said. As the four-month
stretch of meat-free Mondays draws to a close, participants look
forward to their last Meatless Monday on May 19. PAWS will be hosting a
celebration featuring "delicious vegan food," Palmer said.
The project takes a less extreme tactic than in some of PAWS' other events.
In
the past, demonstrators have stripped and smeared themselves with stage
blood to protest factory farming, and likened the meat industry to
genocide.
The Meatless Mondays Campaign, started in association
with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is a national
program that aims to help Americans prevent heart disease, stroke,
diabetes and cancer — four of the leading causes of death in the United
States — according to meatlessmonday.com.
Palmer, a vegan, said she gave up meat after reading Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" in her junior year of high school.
"My main reason is animal rights," she said, explaining "animals shouldn't need to suffer just for human consumption."
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Meat Is Out at Fielder's Plate |
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April 27, 2008
Prince Fielder surveyed the landscape of beet pasta, mung bean pancake
and smoked-tomato popcorn stretched out before him, and uttered a
phrase never before heard in baseball history.
"Where's the hominy?"
This was not an eager request for some
of the hummus-like corn goo. Nor was it a gag on "Where's the beef?" a
question actually heard quite often around Fielder these days. It was a
plea for some sort of map through the table's dizzying array of choices
that stupefied, flummoxed and otherwise befuddled baseball's only
265-pound slugging vegetarian.
Fielder, a first baseman who walloped 50 home runs last season, has become more than the face of the young and improving Milwaukee Brewers he has become a lightning rod for his off-season decision to spurn
meat and fish, including the bratwurst that tailgating Milwaukee fans
hold so dear. Him hitting only one home run through 20 games only
accentuated the intrigue. As the last player most would have expected
to go granola, Fielder and his diet have become as delicious for
critics as the rib eyes he used to love.
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