This Blog Is Disgusting

This blog has been operational for about a year.  Last spring, I decided to put all my old work on here, for people to read – everything from when I was in high school up until my late 20s.  I put a lot of academic writing on there and a lot of personal writing from […]

Opinion Essay on Animal Testing – Written November 23, 2000

The testing of animals has been a continuing issue for the last hundred years. Animal testing has been used for many things including learning the side affects of consumer products such as bleach, as well as helping to cure and treat diseases such as cancer and HIV/AIDS. Thousands of animals die every year due to […]

How Laws of Nature Define Animal Rights – Written April 21, 2003

Animal rights are concepts that are difficult to ethically define because humans define ethics. If people can not even define ethics for themselves, it is difficult to define them for the animal kingdom. Luckily, one could say that our Earth, as a living entity, creates a system of ethics (Naturalism would be the closest example). […]