LITIGATION, LAWYERS & LIES We activists, wild animal protectors, and national park advocates were all primed to watch the latest court proceedings, on Friday, October 18th (2024), for one of the two ongoing lawsuits involving Point Reyes National Seashore. Either lawsuit, in different ways, could result in finally freeing the magnificent Tule elk from …
Ban “factory farms” in Sonoma County, CA? In the animal activist and animal rights communities, there is discussion and debate about use of the term — and even the definition of the term — “factory farm.” Let’s address the contentious issue of whether or not to “ban factory farms” this way: below is copied, …
HELP THE ELK: Comment to the Park Service by Wed. June 5th, 2024 Tell the National Park Service (NPS) that you support their own “preferred Alternative B” which would dismantle the 8-foot-tall, 3-mile-long fence of the Tule Elk Reserve at Tomales Point at Point Reyes National Seashore. While technically this is NOT a vote, …
Methane and deforestation from cattle ranching isn’t magically offset by “regenerative” agriculture. The beef and dairy industries have successfully shoehorned their latest P.R. scheme for continuing the climate-heating cow business — so-called “regenerative ranching” — into “Common Ground,” a documentary about organic agriculture. To quote the April, 2024 Sentient Media article below: “Unfortunately, that solution [regenerative …
I was offended by the comparison. Until I thought a lot more about it. Will you? For years I winced whenever an animal rights activist used the word “holocaust” to describe the slaughter of animals for human consumption. Even though I knew the scale of the animal-killing we humans do — many millions of …
FOCUS ON THE BEAUTY FOR A CHANGE, WILL YA, JACK? Where the wild things are. Pierce Point Ranch, Tule Elk Reserve, Point Reyes National Seashore – Jack Gescheidt, JackPhoto.com I’m painfully aware that I mostly write about problems (as I see them); like wild forests being threatened with logging — rebranded as “thinning” or “management” …
Yet another article detailing how the cattle industry is destroying soil and wildlife habitat in the American West — and accelerating the climate crisis by heating the planet. READ FULL ARTICLE. Some EXCERPTS: • Cattle are well known emitters of methane, through belching and manure. But in the arid and fragile West, they’re …