Right: Mason visits with fellow activists and friends during a conference break. |
The Jim Mason Interview With a Feminist Introduction
Jim Mason is a high profile person in the animal rights movement who makes
a definite connection between non-human cruelty and the wider picture
of power, privilege, patriarchy and persecution. He shares with
radical feminist's ability to name/unmask destructive elements
that present in academic life based through masculinist linear
logic. For example, what lacks in linear logic is an ability to
think through a problem in the truly holistic sense of the word;
i.e., to take the larger picture into account...
Inside
a Turkey Factory (Farm Sanctuary)
A friend heard an advertisement on the local radio about the Butterball
Turkey Company needing workers in artificial insemination, called "AI" for
short. So I went to the personnel office across the street from the
turkey killing plant in this small midwestern town. Latinos, Asians
and poor whites filled the waiting room. Everybody wore rubber boots
and big, puffy white hairnets...
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On
Restoring Evolution: Book Review by Jim Mason
This book is the last and, in terms of readability, the best of the
late Paul Shepard's unique work of examining our primal relationship
with the living world, how we ruined that relationship, and why we
must revive the Pleistocene sense of membership with life on earth...
State
of Farmed Animals 2003; Commentary by Jim Mason (Compassion Over
Killing)
Bi-polar — that’s the word for the state of farmed animals today. The upside
is that we’re having an explosion of farmed animal advocacy; the downside is
that we’re having an explosion of animal agribusiness around the world. There
was no farmed animal advocacy in the United States when Animal Factories came
out in 1980. While Peter Singer had vividly exposed factory farming’s cruelties
to American audiences in his 1975 landmark book Animal Liberation, the U.S.
animal movement was slow to respond...
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