Uncategorized /
Stories to Warm the Holiday Season
In the spirit of Christmas, I’m going to take a short break from presidential politics, and share a pair of stories that inspired me this year. They are stories about two members of Congress, from different political parties, who both helped American families remember their loved ones and celebrate the human-animal bond.
Talk Back /
Talk Back: Huckabee's Record
Last night, I hosted a meeting of about 50 animal advocates in Des Moines, Iowa, at the fantastic Animal Rescue League South adoption center. Iowa is only two weeks away from the nation’s first presidential caucuses, and voters in that state have a unique opportunity to influence the presidential candidates on animal protection issues.
Elections /
The Presidential Files: John Edwards on Animals and Rural America
Former Democratic Senator John Edwards has found himself in the center of the debate over factory farming. When Edwards first ran for the U.S. Senate in 1998, he defeated Republican incumbent Lauch Faircloth, who had been a large-scale, commercial hog farmer and operated in the second-largest hog-producing state. Now, Edwards is spending much of his time in the number one hog-producing state, Iowa, and is running on a platform of protecting small farmers and rural communities from the environmental pollution and economic devastation caused by agribusiness.
