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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Animal Person

There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story.

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November is. Awareness Month

Animal Person

I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food ( Natural Balance ), and who is adopting a boy from Russia. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Would I ever say I restrict my diet to food that wasn't made from the parts of creatures as sentient as the greyhounds I share my home with? How about an ethical adventure ? Perhaps they are taught that other cultures eat animals other than cows, chickens, fish and pigs, I don't know. I don't think of that as a restriction.

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