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On the Vegan "Diet"

Animal Person

But they also haven't made a moral choice to not use animals. When I first saw PCRM's " Kickstart Your Health With a Vegan Diet " campaign, I let out a bit of a sigh. And if this campaign increases the number of people who decrease their animal usage in their diets, that's a great step. They don't have collars made from animals.

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On Humane Societies and Calf-Roping

Animal Person

If so, campaign to ban the rodeo, for heaven's sake! Just be honest about your goal and campaign for it! But the HSUS is by no means an animal-rights organization; it is an animal welfare organization. Societies evolve morally. Will the VHS support the rodeo if calf-roping is banned?

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author.

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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. Vegans give money to organizations that they think are going to further their vegan cause but that's not what ends up happening with all 100% of those donations (let's assume some goes to vegan education or animal rescue or even open rescue).

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Majority Rules in the Language of Animal Rights

Animal Person

But when you step back from those discussions you see that: 1. The people involved are usually vegans, so there's no one to convert (though their charitable dollars might need converting if they go to an organization that doesn't have the same goal as the individual); and 2. The argument centers on the territory of language.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. That is one year for one organization.

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

10,000 Birds

In De arte venandi cum avibus , he corrected and supplemented this comprehensive survey of the existing literature with his own empirical observations and logical inductions – and methodically organized these natural histories in a work that is startlingly ahead of its time. Could this be the first “accipiter sp.”

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