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On Betraying Your Family

Animal Person

Please talk to us before you start to accuse us of not taking care of our cows, and making what one farmer who is not right the truth of everyone else. For more on the "love" animal farmers have for "their" animals, see also On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal. It's a relief to hear that Brian disapproves.

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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. it's not so bad. I'm not sure how that equals soul.

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA. I still think about and worry about so many of the animals I’ve worked with. I set my camera up, then got him out. So gorgeous!