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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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How many people know this about the Animal Welfare Act? No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there. The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. This is really interesting. I certainly didn't.

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Two Blogs, Two Views on Experimenting on Chimps

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Tags: chimpanzees medical research animal welfare. Here's a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania with an interesting post about the same issue, wondering how much we really need to experiment on chimps.

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Stephanie Ernst Leaves Change.org

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I work, volunteer, take classes sometimes, run a household and care for five animals and a husband, so I'm not as involved in the blog community as I wish I could be. However, I certainly tried to read Stephanie Ernst's posts at Change.org's Animal Rights blog. Tags: blogosphere. But now I'm following Ms.

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On "Animal Rights Conferences"

Animal Person

" Two Animal Rights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. I don't know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is international if that matters. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language.

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Dosomething.org helps lost pets.

4 The Love Of Animals

Sophia E from Baxter Springs, KS is going to start a program to supply pet owners with proper id for their pets and a local system to bring interested pet owners together to teach them the importance of tagging. She’s also going to start a blog featuring photos of lost pets from her community! Dosomething.org helps lost pets.

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Farm Sanctuary Wary about Tom Vilsack for USDA

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This is a December 18 post from Gene Bauer's blog pointing out some concerns about Vilsack. Tags: Obama USDA farm animal welfare factory farm us agribusiness. While the Humane Society was pretty happy with Vilsack as Obama's pick for the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Sanctuary is wary.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.