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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

Critter News

Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Excellent news! Thank you Air Canada!

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Animal Advocacy

Animal Ethics

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Proposed Nebraska Legislation Angers Horse Activists

Critter News

Two bills introduced in the Nebraska Legislature are drawing fire from the largest animal advocacy organization in the world. From the Lexington Clipper-Herald. click here for the full article. Newcomer to the Legislature Sen.

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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

Critter News

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. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. In the author's words.

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Don’t Kill Bill Event

4 The Love Of Animals

Proceeds from the show will be used to further Up For Pups animal advocacy efforts. Kyla needs our help, as this is the first time she’s ever done something like this, and she would very much like to sell out the show to demonstrate the importance of animal rescue organizations to our communities.

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On "Animal Activism"

Animal Person

With more than 2 million members across the globe, PETA is the largest animal advocacy group and comparable in size to the human rights organization, Amnesty International. First, note that now PeTA is an "animal advocacy group." So there are more vegans and fewer animals used by humans, right?

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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. Worth a look.

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Why Do Animals Exist?

Creature Talk

Filed under: Animal Rights Tagged: animal advocacy , conversations with non-vegans , dogs , eating habits , Factory Farming , Farmed Animals , humans , make a difference , pictures , questions about veganism. So, friends, why do we humans exist anyway?

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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. I think of the time I spent writing about or talking about "Francione-style abolition," and "abolition."

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Let’s Catch Up!

Creature Talk

Tagged: animal advocacy, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, animal suffering, companion animals, dogs, dolphins, get involved, horses, humans, Michael Vick, The Cove. With that, I promise to post more regularly – enjoy the reading! Oh, and check out my new food blog: Veg Out With Us!

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

See Campaigns page at www.RPAforAll.org. RPA's position statement opposing violence and other antisocial behavior in association with animal advocacy is available at www.RPAforAll.org or by request. Donations to RPA are tax deductible as allowed by law and may be made at the above address or www.RPAforAll.org.

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Breed Bans are NOT the Answer

Creature Talk

Tags: Animal Welfare animal advocacy companion animals dogs pictures.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

The animal advocacy group Compassion Over Killing has created a new website to bring attention to the fact that Morningstar Farms continues to use "battery eggs" from caged birds in their products. Hey Keith, I wanted to drop you a line on this because I thought it would be up your alley. Here is the link.

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Chimpanzees are NOT “Pets”

Creature Talk

I am hopeful that animal advocates will rise to the call and try to make some legislative changes, as one has already begun to do: “ A chimpanzee is not a domestic pet ,&# said Pricilla Feral, president of the international animal advocacy group Friends of Animals, based in Darien.

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