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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

Critter News

We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. 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. Tags: advocacy. In the author's words.

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Book Chronicles History of Animal Rights

Critter News

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. In contrast to old-speciesist and new-speciesist advocacy, nonspeciesist advocacy advances the goal of emancipating all sentient beings from human abuse. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.

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"Creature Quotes" Is Here!

Animal Person

This compilation is particularly important for people who believe in God and whose advocacy has religion or faith or spirituality as a component. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language Amy Gutman animal rights J.M. Yes, there is a lot of "mind" in Creature Quotes. But there is also a lot of heart. There is story. There is passion.

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For the Budding Vegan Author

Animal Person

I have an unusual number of e-mails from individuals who have written, are writing, or would like to write a book about animals and asked about various steps in the publishing process. Books are obvious opportunities for advocacy and vegan education. There are entire books written about query letters.

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On the Land Grant University Meat Problem

Animal Person

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc. Glenside, PA 19038. 215-886-RPA1. RPA4all@aol.com. www.RPAforAll.org. www.ExpertsOfConscience.org. www.EatForSports.org.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!). The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached.