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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

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For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products? Tags: advocacy.

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted the initial investigation[2] that exposed the apparent cruelty at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, an inconspicuous rural lab funded by large pharmaceutical companies to test insecticides and other chemicals used in companion animal products.

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Good Idea: FlexPet

4 The Love Of Animals

It also entitles members to the following: A subscription to Best Friends magazine, the most popular general interest companion animal magazine in the nation. Special members-only rates for area accommodations should you or your gift recipient like to visit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Tags: good idea.

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Bring Pets Home

4 The Love Of Animals

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is a leader in research and dedicated to the development, production and marketing of innovative, high-quality animal-health products for all major farm and companion animal species. Tags: news websites.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

Yet he spends time describing the miserable deaths of day-old male chicks and understands what happens in dairy production, and I assume he doesn't partake of anyone's eggs or milk. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." But why does he say "vegetarian?"

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.".

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