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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. My deconstructions of the language of our relationship with sentient nonhumans in this blog--and the way I approach discussing that relationship--is similar to Dunayer's. I could go on and on.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans. No surprise there.

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When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs

Critter News

I thought I could stay with the group because she does give me fodder for the blog. She has no issues with vivisection either. These are core issues to me that are an integral part to who I am as a human being. This has been a very difficult decision for me, because I have such good friends in the group. She supports this.