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JUNE 4, 2016

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

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MARCH 1, 2016

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JANUARY 1, 2016

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MARCH 16, 2009

This highly informative documentary is produced by Tom Simon (a seven-time Emmy® winner) and Sarah Teale, producer of the 2006 HBO special "Dealing Dogs," which received two Emmy® nominations, including Best Documentary. "Death on a Factory Farm" chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Here is the latest issue (winter 2006) of The Prairie Progress, which is the newsletter of Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary.

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DECEMBER 10, 2006

Do we feel better about ourselves when playing dress-up with our dogs? It seems as if we are humanizing dogs in a perverse effort to make us feel more human ourselves. Loretta O’Driscoll Brooklyn, Dec.

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DECEMBER 1, 2006

The previous best month (March 2006) had 1,730 visitors (55.8 This blog had 2,325 visitors during November, which is an average of 77.5 visitors per day—which projects to 28,287.5 visitors per year. That is by far the most visitors during any month of the blog's three-year existence.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original]) Bit by bit the news would get around, that there is a right and a wrong way to eat; and—failing some coup d’état by censorious vegetarians—the process would be set in motion, that would bring battery farming to an end.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

As we continue to exert pressure on wildlife and wild lands, health issues are hitting us from a number of angles and reminding us that while animal health and human health are separated because of academic tradition, there is really only one world and only one health. Karesh Bronx, Dec.

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DECEMBER 18, 2006

I expect that the industry groups would like to put my farmer friends out of business with the costs and hassles of tagging their animals, to eliminate competition. I hope everyone who prefers local and pasture-raised animals will speak up and protect the source of their food and health. Marjorie Smith Shoemakersville, Pa.,

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JANUARY 30, 2007

Barbaro, the magnificent thoroughbred who broke his leg two weeks after winning the 2006 Kentucky Derby (I watched both races live), was put to death after taking a turn for the worse in his recovery. It's a sad day for horse lovers. See here for the New York Times story. Barbaro's killing is a case of euthanasia.

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DECEMBER 16, 2006

He received the highest score in both my fall 2005 Social and Political Philosophy course and my spring 2006 Ethics course. Love, of course, isn’t sufficient for being a philosopher (it may not even be necessary), but Jonathan has a genuine aptitude for philosophy. I believe Jonathan’s plan was to become a medical doctor.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2007

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 2, 2006

Bush signed the “ Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ” into law this past Monday (November 27, 2006). The law protects animal enterprises from courses of conduct designed to disrupt their normal profitable functioning. On September 30, 2006, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) introduced Senate Bill S. 4239 by voice vote.

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