Dear Mother Jones Editors, The piece you allowed to run on your website yesterday (about “DIY Slaughter”) was so poorly thought out that it doesn’t deserve a direct response, which is why I’m writing to the Mother Jones editors. I’m one of the founders and organizers of Neighbors Opposed...

I found your article about urban farming and backyard slaughter alarmingly one-sided and biased towards Novella Carpenter and her desire to kill animals. I’ve seen and read enough of Carpenter to be quite disturbed by the glee with which she describes killing the natural predators of the animals she...

In my last post, I encouraged you to write to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine after getting your hands on a copy of the Sept. 2007 issue. The email address is letters@theatlantic.com. In the meantime, I thought I would share with you both my letter as well as that of...

I wrote this letter on 3/27/06 in response to a lengthy article detailing the “thrill of hunting pigs” by Michael Pollan. As the character Rowf says in Richard Adams’ novel, The Plague Dogs: “it’s a bad world for animals.” (Richard Adams also wrote Watership Down.) Dear Editor, There is...

A couple of weeks ago, I read an article in the Washington Post that I immediately felt compelled to respond to with a Letter to the Editor. Much to my delight, they published it on Sunday, March 12th. The original “article,” which wasn’t exactly a paragon of cutting-edge journalism,...