This is a rather vast subject I suppose...
The short of it; I live in a 200 year old farmhouse in semi-rural NC, Amerika with a load of musical instruments, some swords and guns, a madwoman, and my large adopted family of rescued cats and dog...here is where the howling winds and starry stars still reign supreme...
I spend most of my time working at work my self-owned green/sustainable/enviro residential design/build company, working in the garden, taking care of my little friends, and playing music when the stars are right...
For those curious about music and me...I play:
Sitar
Oud (Medieval Lute)
Tamboura
Guitar
Bass
Synths and Keys
Various Drums and Percussion
Psaltrey
Recorders
Currently, I am the sometimes guitar lasher and screamer for the Oracle of Entropy, and bliss monger-multi-instrumentalist for Rasika...I no longer pursue music as a means to wealth or fame, so don't expect me to throw out a bunch of hype here...
Other Important Issues:
The Six Principles of the Animal Rights Position:
The animal rights position maintains that all sentient beings, humans or nonhuman, have one right: the basic right not to be treated as the property of others.
Our recognition of the one basic right means that we must abolish, and not merely regulate, institutionalized animal exploitation–because it assumes that animals are the property of humans.
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and homophobia, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
We recognize that we will not abolish overnight the property status of nonhumans, but we will support only those campaigns and positions that explicitly promote the abolitionist agenda. We will not support positions that call for supposedly “improved†regulation of animal exploitation.
We reject any campaign that promotes sexism, racism, homophobia or other forms of discrimination against humans.
We recognize that the most important step that any of us can take toward abolition is to adopt the vegan lifestyle and to educate others about veganism. Veganism is the principle of abolition applied to one’s personal life and the consumption of any meat, fowl, fish, or dairy product, or the wearing or use of animal products, is inconsistent with the abolitionist perspective.
We recognize the principle of nonviolence as the guiding principle of the animal rights movement.
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