Opinion – Animal Issues – I was asked to present a paper on animal studies at Canisius College, and as a semi-native Floridian, I wasn’t sure how to survive a winter weekend in Buffalo – especially since I was told to avoid wearing leather…or any other animal products. Despite my shallow goals of wanting to see the snow, I learned a great deal about scholarship and activism at the 11th Annual International Convention for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS). Attendees from as far away as Korea and the Czech Republic joined U.S. and Canadian scholars and activists in an effort to further understand human and non-human...