ANIMAL PEOPLE FORUM | Ashby McGowan | Activity https://animalpeopleforum.org/members/ashbymcgowan/activity/ Activity feed for Ashby McGowan. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:40:37 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a36c3adce15ba7740361d01f4bbdd25 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, POETRY: And Ohh, What Is That Peculiar Taste? http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=19306 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:34:49 -0700 Your eyes can almost see past the white wine on your table
Almost see the fish gasping for life in the huge net
But not quite

Your nose can almost detect that very particular smell of sheep, as they travel up […]

]]> 1 0e314fb7700bd107af2dc63c8d8ce7e0 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, CANADA: A Protest Poem http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=17643 Thu, 03 May 2018 03:24:41 -0700 Thanks to Infinity’s Kitchen magazine for their kind permission to re-use this poem. This has been performed once with a Canadian flag wrapped around the performers.

The readers (any number from 4 to 6) a […]

]]> 0 1ae2392af4362391bac7db37af1ab942 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, POETRY: Saying 'Hello' to a Sheep http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=15905 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:01:42 -0800 A poem written for my first time participating in a Save Movement event:

Your fate is not described in films and books
No tale of The Knife. No painting of The Hooks

You and your friends that you hold […]

]]> 0 12b630dbd61ed80f60a35c8d1d2cbcaa Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, POETRY: Rewilding http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=14175 Tue, 05 Sep 2017 22:06:17 -0700 Sheep on the hill, silent, as the
Day, dark falling
Filling the pools is the swift rain – cruel and nourishing – high hill
Saturating
Into the night

With the morn,
Hordes of clegs and midges gorge the […]

]]> 0 84ecabba3cb4edef092960347b118221 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, An animal rights interactive poem http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=8071 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:52:51 -0800 Daybreak is a multi-voice animal rights poem. Please join me now in performing it!

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(Featured image: red deer in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. Courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)

]]> 0 88b80bc986deae14565680d5ae6dcf71 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Take part in the performance of a Nature poem, now! http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=8036 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 03:53:05 -0800 This is your big chance to take part in a nature poem. No auditions required.

Ashby

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Featured image: bird at sunrise, outside Kathmandu, Nepal. Courtesy Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.

]]> 0 ad551297fa6af5d2d2c6c2d34f83bc3b Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Four Green Walls (short story) http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=6728 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:16:35 -0700 (Featured image credit: 威翰 陳, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

It is hard to climb the stairs. Only four flights but they are narrow and steep. People piss in the entryway and offensive graffiti covers the walls […]

]]> 0 120c5f7d0587f60823296ea8f11c5d73 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Buddhism, Veganism, & Multi-Voice Poetry http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5107 Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:33:26 -0700 (Featured image: carving of the Buddha surrounded by animals in Borobudur, a 9th century Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia. Credit Wolf Clifton – Animal People, Inc.)

Since writing an unpublished book on […]

]]> 0 2957386bb5e2d77bffb3333b0496fc51 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Invertebrate Pain http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5253 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:14:28 -0700 (Featured image: octopus using nut and seashell for shelter, a form of tool use. Credit Nick Hobgood, used under CC BY-SA 3.0)

Author’s Note: This article was originally published in The Vegan magazine, Winter […]

]]> 0 f0fedfd9a810316522b1fc255789d132 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Seals, protests, and selchies http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5436 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:05:03 -0700 (Photo credit: Nic, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

One of the reasons that I am passionate about Seal tales:

One day in November 1982, I was out in a powered boat – with some other protestors – in the Orkney […]

]]> 1 e06f1c268572db4c8a57c1794a3caecd Ashby McGowan posted a new activity comment https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/3422/#acomment-3432 Mon, 04 Jul 2016 12:20:52 -0700 I often get asked by non vegans, “But you eat plants isn’t that the same as eating animals? Don’t plants feel pain?” I try to show respect for all life. Even plant life. A meat eater actually causes the death of more plants than a plant eater-because of the in-efficient method of feeding huge numbers of plants to an animal which you then eat. But…[Read more]

In reply to - Animal People, Inc. posted an update http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/science/29obs-plants.html?action=click&contentCollection=Science&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article ]]> ced97cd6f07045d137611f011d0b63a4 Ashby McGowan posted a new activity comment https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/3425/#acomment-3431 Mon, 04 Jul 2016 12:10:32 -0700 Brave man

In reply to - Animal People, Inc. posted an update http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/celebs/Irrfan-on-animal-killing-controversy-Clerics-dont-scare-me/videoshow/53025338.cms ]]> df96b794b42558e8a50ec09f4571c458 Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, Researching the Researchers http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5255 Sun, 03 Jul 2016 21:49:24 -0700 (Featured image: primate in transit to laboratory. Credit Mary Bloom)

In the 1980s I did the background research for an anti-vivisection group in Glasgow, Scotland. I researched the researchers in the area […]

]]> 0 132069c489d47cc9c80a5336bbbabfbe Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, The Saboteur's Guide to Foxhunting Horn and Voice Calls http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5066 Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:51:07 -0700 (Featured image credit: Calypso Orchid, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

There are ten particular situations that every Sab needs to know about. If you know the calls, you will not be bored at a Hunt, as you will be […]

]]> 0 98ac1fd0365eea3b29315ceb80381a5b Ashby McGowan wrote a new post, The Beast, and how to write an animal rights poem http://animalpeopleforum.org/?p=5046 Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:24:59 -0700 (Featured image credit Frank DiBona, used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

I recently read in some magazine, a Hunt follower asking for Hunting with Hounds to continue because, “there are so many wonderful poems about t […]

]]> 0 0569ce698cbb843a5abf351753d1575b Ashby McGowan became a registered member https://animalpeopleforum.org/activity/p/2752/ Thu, 12 May 2016 07:21:50 -0700 0