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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

Critter News

It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." What messages and techniques have been proven effective in getting people to make compassionate decisions like boycotting fur and adopting companion animals instead of buying them? Tags: advocacy. In the author's words.

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What Friends are For

Animal Person

How ridiculous is it that " On the Psychological Continuum ," to say nothing of an article against rabbit fur, is on the same page as Gabriella's Fur Den? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. So this was in my e-mail box this morning. Perhaps there is a filter of some find at work.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?