I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
An animal rights activist told me last July that a person from the animal rights movement had recently been hired by the USDA, and hopefully that would make the USDA’s policies more animal-friendly. Chances– not likely. As Mother Jones writes, the USDA is “pretty much a trade group for agribusiness.” In fact, the USDA is [...]
In response to my previous post on true libertarianism, I received a bit of positive feedback and a majority of commenters who simply didn’t get it. To those who would make an argument like Anonymous on the post – Who has decreed that government force should only protect human liberty? Furthermore, how do you define [...]
You may have noticed that most of my recent posts are animal-related. I’ve been a vegetarian for a long time, but I’ve become more interested in these issues after looking more into it and realizing just how bad it is for these defenseless creatures– who collectively suffer what amounts to a Holocaust every hour on [...]
The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine recently launched an ad campaign on the DC Metro system featuring Jasmine Messiah, an 8-year-old Miami girl who is a vegetarian and says her school has no vegetarian options available for her. From Animals The ad garnered more attention for asking why Obama supports different policies for his children [...]
Canada has been in the news lately primarily for its health care system, which may be wonderful or lacking, depending on who you ask and who’s telling you. But while Canadians may or may not be boycotting their own health system for Michigan’s, others are boycotting Canada due to its seal hunt. Rarely have I [...]
This is the second in a series of posts on animal rights-related issues and how they could be solved in a libertarian fashion, perhaps more effectively than current methods the Humane Society is using. Yesterday’s and today’s posts focus on the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009, and how the Humane Society might be [...]
One of the bills the Humane Society is really pushing now is the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009. This closes a loophole in federal law which was widened under Clinton in 1998, when the amount of money a garment had to be worth to be labeled with its fur content was increased from [...]