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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

These people are overwhelmingly undereducated (and I don’t mean formal education) males, although occasionally you’ll find a comparable female going along for the ride (think Sarah Palin – no relation to Palenville, although for this particular event the nearly identical name is both handy and appropriate).

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

Obviously (I think), education is the key. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!). (See " On Measuring Success " for more on that). And this leads me to the related. Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Indeed, Lappé, in the next section of her book, recommends a list of organizations that one can join in order to change government policy toward hungry people of the world and to educate Americans about the food problem. How well does W educate people to the value of G? None of these organizations requires a vegetarian commitment.

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From the Animal Rights Action Network re: Greyhounds

Animal Person

These poor animals are literally running for their lives and we must do everything we can to educate people about their suffering and exploitation and work towards ending this horribly cruel activity because many people out there just don't know any different, so we must be the greyhound's best advocate and use our voice for theirs.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

More important, it might be a much more efficient means of changing practice to stage protests at meat-packing companies, put pressure on congressmen, and work through existing humane organizations. It would be a way of protesting present practice, a way of saying, “I disagree strongly with the treatment of animals used for food.”