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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

Your passion to help animals can become all consuming and you can start to feel bitter, frustrated and really angry that no one else seems to care about animals as much or in the way that you care. Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. We know that animals suffer as well. To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof’s column broke my heart. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D.