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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM

Animal Person

Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. That would be like brainwashing, and that's just not right. Besides, when it comes to birthday parties it's not like my vegan kid would have anything to eat. VBM is the least I can do, but I am committed to doing my part.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. For example, when the U.S.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes.