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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

The rest of the animal advocacy community, which is the vast majority, who call themselves abolitionists, are abolitionists. Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals. And it usually involves exchanges with non-vegans. But that's me.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

The bird was stripped of feathers and so badly battered that euthanasia was probable. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. My first intake was … a cat-caught Northern Mockingbird.

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