Tag: writing

  • IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT -THE OSCAR PISTORIUS/ REEVA STEENKAMP STORY by Terence Grant

    Above: The entrance to Oscar Pistorius’ security-estate, Silver Woods Country Estate, which is part of the Silver Lakes Golf Estate. Silver Lakes was voted the most secure estate in South Africa in 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/feb/14/pistorius-home-estate-most-secure-south-africa http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Oscar_Pistorius/3-crimes-reported-in-Silver-Woods-in-3-years-20140325 BY TERENCE GRANT Oscar Pistorius lived in a prestigious security-estate that was surrounded by an electric-fence (mounted on a 3 metre high…

  • IF WE WERE ALL VEGAN, ANIMALS WOULD SUFFER A WORSE FATE by Terence Grant

    If there were no meat-eaters, animals would routinely die of thirst and hunger, surrounded by the rotting corpses of animals that had died months earlier. This would hardly constitute an improvement. Consequently, vegans are often forced to fall back on the argument that domestic animals suffer intolerably and should be allowed to become extinct -an…