Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Below is a press release about the mailing. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2010

From the Associated Press. A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. But the burgers also attracted international attention and the scorn of animal rights activists, who picketed outside the restaurant. No, I'm not making this up.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 31, 2010

They are picked fresh, and then the meat is air dried and cold pressed, making a pure product that retains the health benefits of a raw coconut. Giveaway: CocoTherapy originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on January 31, 2010. We have seen that her ears don’t hurt as much when we use the oil to keep them soft.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” The poison dart frog pictured here is the Golden poison dart frog, Phyllobates terribilis, known as the world’s most poisonous animal; its skin secretions are used by South American Indians from the Colombian Andes for their blowgun darts.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Of course, the meat is more expensive since it takes lots of real estate to freely graze a herd, and it’s tougher than typical supermarket fare (Americans are used to a style of marbling that’s caused by grain diets and flabby cattle, whereas grass-fed cows are trim from their daily ambles). Andrew Rimas Evan D. Fraser Jamaica Plain, Mass.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

An enormous volume of material has already appeared on the conditions under which animals live and die on factory farms, and more is almost certainly on the way. Indeed, our feeling of revulsion may be so intense that we simply can no longer bring ourselves to eat meat.

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