Theoria

“Cats’-meat men peddled their wares from door to door: these itinerate vendors sold skewers of horsemeat used for cat (and dog) food, customarily trundling their goods in a wheelbarrow and often depicted as trailed by a horde of extremely interested felines. In the nineteenth century, a cats’-meat man reported that there were twice as many [...]

I’ve been pushing the thesis that pets are not animals, which explains why pets are relatively well protected by the law while all other animals are not protected by the law–even minimally; for instance, how common agricultural practices are exempt from the purview of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. [...]

Like many, I’ve been more or less following the Paws R Us puppy mill investigation and, like many, I’ve been aware of this business for quite some time and horrified by its existence. I was excited to read that the whole affair was seemingly coming to an end with the owners of the business agreeing [...]

I have long maintained that pets are not animals. The very structure of animal law demonstrates this: animals deemed to be pets are moderately well protected under the law while animals deemed to be food or research subjects or sources of entertainment have next to no legal protections at all. This holds even when the [...]