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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

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The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan?

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice. His whereabouts are unknown. About the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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I would encourage the KDFW to take Tennessee’s example as an indication that offering sandhill cranes for hunting will create far more public relations trouble than it’s worth. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!&# Tennessee found that out in January.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

One ought to adopt the best means. Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. Consequently, one ought not to eat meat. One can do many things.