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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? "Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists.

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Enjoy of the Ethical Synergy of Healthy Eating in 2010!

Animal Ethics

Why not make this the year that you get serious and take a meaningful step toward improving your health and reducing your waistline by experimenting with a vegan diet for 21 days. It has never been easier to try out a vegan diet. Today marks Day 1 of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's 21-Day Vegan Kickstart.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. Appropriately planned vegan, lacto-vegetarian, and lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets satisfy nutrient needs of infants, children, and adolescents and promote normal growth.

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. If you are already a vegetarian, make this the year that you decide to go vegan. For example: 1.

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Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!

Animal Ethics

For examples, see here and here. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. For example: 1. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. What can I do to stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty, and is it difficult to do so? Even the government has gotten in on the game.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. But my eating meat is not such a necessary condition for cruelty to animals. causing a decline in U.S.