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On the Vegan "Diet"

Animal Person

If PCRM can get more people to try a "vegan diet" for 21 days as suggested, which is what in my experience used to be called "strict vegetarianism" (and which is no better), that's an actual decrease in animal use for those people. If they did that, they'd most certainly get pounced on.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." But why does he say "vegetarian?" He never says he is. Then again, he is not against the consumption of animals, " in general " (198).

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.

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On Vegan Grenades

Animal Person

I do know people who became vegan (also after watching " Earthlings ") who are now vegetarians, pescetarians and run-of-the-mill omnivores. Someone who goes from vegan to vegetarian to eating cows isn't really in a position to judge anyone. What does this mean? We role play with questions or comments he gets at work.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. I'm still not sure why vegan education can't be part of any of these efforts. ). How about this? What do you think?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.