Recent Posts Tagged With 'Barack Obama'

• Public Health and Agriculture: An Ongoing Debate

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 14:37 in animals, Barack Obama, Public Policy, ethics, animal welfare, animal behavior, food animals, human-animal studies

  For 2 1/2 years, a highly diverse group of experts from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP) (a project from the Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) studied the practices of industria...

• Obama’s mutt

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 06:32 in Dogs, animals, Identity, Barack Obama, television, Public Policy, human-animal bond, ethics, animal welfare, animal behavior, representations, human-animal studies

  Everyone took notice when Barack Obama uttered his now famous words, “Shelter dogs tend to be mutts, like me…” It was a startling moment for many reasons. Had we ever heard a president-elect speak so self-deprecatingly? Had someone ...

• Obama’s Puppy: Big News

  Posted on Thursday November 6th, 2008 at 13:24 in Dogs, Barack Obama, Public Policy, human-animal bond

  During Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night, he promised his daughters, Sasha and Malia, that they would be moving to the White House with a well-deserved new puppy. Those of us who follow the role of animals in popular culture took notice of...

• President Barack Obama

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 10:38 in Identity, Barack Obama, Public Policy

  On my way to work on the morning after our country elected Barack Obama as President, the bus was eerily quiet. I sat among fellow commuters in silence. The usual cell phone conversations and loud chats about work, the tired early morning laughter...