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Are We Really a Movement?

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Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. One of the benefits that human rights movements have is that they are articulating for themselves. Animals can't do that.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed. At 14, as I started making my own choices, my eating habits began to change.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. Ever, in fact.