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November is. Awareness Month

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And Adoption Awareness Month. Here's my attempt to bring it all together in an Animal Person post. I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food ( Natural Balance ), and who is adopting a boy from Russia. Also, some countries that allow international adoptions have age cut-offs.

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An Affront to the Idea of Family

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That's one of the reasons adopting wasn't a stretch for me at all mentally. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Yes, factory farms are the stuff of nightmares for nonhuman animals. But so are family farms.

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