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"Bold Native" is Film About Animal Rights

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The film looks really interesting to us and we are definitely going to check it out upon its re-release this summer. Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act entertainment animal rights. We received an email from Open Road Films with a link to the Bold Native website and trailer. Here's the trailer.

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Western WA Puppy Mills Had Troubled History, But Still Allowed to Operate

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This is definitely a situation that could have been stopped early on. Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. She kept being given "one more chance" with the end result of about 600 dogs finally being seized from the establishments. The article is particularly thorough and damning.

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Are Women More Compassionate Than Men?

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That doesn't mean that I don't know thoughtful men who think about these issues, just that I've noticed the tendencies are definitely lopsided. Tags: animal rights. And I find that in conversations, women are more likely to listen and think about what I say than men, who often brush me off as an emotional female.

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Do Animals Laugh?

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A prominent researcher in the specialized field of animal laughter, Jaak Panksepp of Washington State University, said it definitely goes farther back than that. "I Tags: animal behavior primates.

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Read an Analysis of Slate's Animal Research Series

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I'm not saying he was the most compassionate person in the world, and I'm not saying that I admire or like him, but at least there was some self-criticism and, yes, some guilt there that I find lacking in the animal researchers I've encountered. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author.