The story is about Dinky, the rescue, and the need to not breed rabbits (or any other animals) for pets to sell in stores. You can read it soon.
Category: Mission: Abolition
Meet Jimmy and Morrison
Turkeys served for Thanksgiving are babies. Turkeys can live a decade or more, but they are killed for meat when they reach a certain weight – and that’s usually when they are less than 5 months old. Jimmy and Morrison are about a year old now.
Beer Burros and Other Bad Ideas
The beer burro trend draws on tradition, because of course it does. When are we going to step out of tradition and finally move on to better things?
Collateral
You can align with the core belief of an organization, be grateful it exists, support its work, send money – and still be critical of its choices.
Catabasis
If you’ve been in this movement for a while, you already know these players and storylines. If you are newer, like me, you’ll get a sense of what it feels like to step into a conversation that’s been happening for decades.
The Body Keeps the Cause
When activism becomes physically embodied—through protest, sacrifice, confrontation, and even violence—what does the movement owe the people putting their bodies on the line? Allie Irwin examines that tension, and the choices organizations make when advocacy, accountability, and strategy collide.
beLIEf
From the Latin comes the Spanish rodear, a “roundup” – the practical, unglamorous work of gathering cattle. American English, with a cowboy twang-drawl, turned rodeo into an “exhibition” and “contest.”
Crated
You can help one pig, you can pull up a crate, or you can put down the pork.
Devastated by Doves
Just before dawn tomorrow, shotgun shots will pierce the desert air, ricochet off the boulders and set off an echoing crack! … crack! … crack! …
Grandstanding
Farming and rodeo have had four decades to evolve – but they still operate on the same principles: animal commodification and corporate exploitation.
The Beautiful Audacity of David Michelson
By the time I heard about IP28, the PEACE Act – People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions – it was in its third iteration since 2022.
An Eye for an Eye
It was the first time a truckful of animals was in front of me, and it was the last thing I expected that day, down on the corner, out in the street.
I’ll Always Ruin Dinner
I still get nervous speaking in public, but I will never turn down the opportunity to advocate for veganism. Speaking up for animals is always right and, sometimes, it can get a little weird.
207 Miles to the Gates of Hell
Marshall also breeds animals to test veterinary applications. There isn’t a comparable stat out there for efficacy, but that’s not the point. These animals do not give consent.
Branded
A bunch of booted cowgirls clicked their spurs together at the podium and begged the town council to bring back their rodeo. I’ve been trying to make sure that doesn’t happen ever since.
Dirty Truths for Strangers
In the first installment of Mission: Abolition, Allie Irwin reflects on horses, a wild bird, and the uncomfortable work of aligning our relationships with animals to the values we say we hold.
