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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that). Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals. I spent several years writing, daily, and often with shock, about how, for instance, the NYT- -the New York Times (OMG!!!!!)--would

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

I reduced all lines and edges to straights and curves (that’s all there are) and began to render with mechanical drawing instruments¬ ruling pen, compass, French curve, T-square, triangle. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

I'm proud to say that Project Treadstone is a nearly-well-oiled machine thanks to the compassion and willingness to help that I have encountered by almost everyone I've encountered regarding the cats at the site. Abundance (of meat, drink). The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of (esp. c1380 WYCLIF Wks.

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Adopt A Turkey!

4 The Love Of Animals

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres and rescue group Farm Sanctuary both want you to Adopt-A-Turkey this Thanksgiving! Payton, who counsels “In a ton of ways, compassion pays;”. Sadly, the meat industry subjects turkeys to intolerable cruelty and treats them like inanimate objects with no feelings or personalities.

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