Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

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. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Below is a press release about the mailing. Another went out last Friday.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

In a brisk, readable narrative, The Longest Struggle traces the campaigns of animal rights pioneers like Henry Spira, Alex Hershaft, and Ingrid Newkirk, as well as leaders who have come more recently on the scene like Heidi Prescott, Karen Davis, and Bruce Friedrich. Tags: animal rights.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

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? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. What evolutionary forces have shaped their bodies for travel, what forces will be helping and hindering their journeys, and which scientists will be tagging, observing, and analyzing them as they make their way north?

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." If Engber does a good job with anything, it's with pointing out the flaws in the strategies of pro-animal activists and in the outcomes of their campaigns. But the entire industry is questionable.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

But yet every single day in Ireland there are greyhounds all over the country been dumped into rivers with rocks tied to their little feet and their ears cut off so that they are non identifiable, this is the Irish greyhound racing industry at it's best when they no longer want the ones who are 'useless' or 'unwanted'.

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