Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2010

Next, a fellow introvert e-mailed me describing herself as extremely awkward socially as well as invisible and having social anxiety, and asking where/how she might be useful to the animal rights movement. Working or volunteering at an animal sanctuary or shelter or participating (or starting) a Trap-Neuter-Release effort, maybe?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

“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. When I release an animal I immediately want to pull them back to me.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Here's my attempt to bring it all together in an Animal Person post. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Is raising a good citizen of the planet more important than the carbon footprints of two vegans who live relatively modest lives?

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