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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

10,000 Birds

The human world is on the move to where the money is. Over the past several years, our company, Birdman Productions has been working on a film about this slow, quiet crisis. Help us get an important part of the funding required by visiting our Indiegogo Campaign. This moment is about beginning to see in a new way.

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Are Farm Animals Usually Killed in a Humane Manner?

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He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. In my opinion, the crux of the question touches on what is “humane.” This is mass production.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

FSD) for their second annual philanthropic campaign. FSD’s custom trained service dogs assist their partners in day-to-day activities providing their human companions with a greater degree of independence. its sister, for-profit dog product-manufacturing corporation www.dublindog.com. About Freedom Service Dogs.

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On Small Victories

Animal Person

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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Dublin Dog Foundation Update

4 The Love Of Animals

which helps foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions, successfully completed the 2009 Let Freedom Bark Ride fundraising initiative and exceeded the fundraising goal of $20,000 in an effort to sponsor the life of a service dog for an individual in need.

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Year of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

My work focused on a consistently productive bald eagle nest in Kirkland, Wash., By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” I’m running a crowdfunding campaign now to raise funds to publish it. located across a large lake from Seattle.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.

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