Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training!

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

The film’s protagonist, Ric O’Barry, who trained the animals that played TV’s Flipper before he had a change of heart, indicts businesses like Sea World as being either overtly or tacitly complicit in the cruelty. The captivity industry keeps the slaughter going,” O’Barry charges in movie.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! The interview is scheduled for 10-15 minutes of Monday's one-hour show.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

You could easily argue," he added, that the resources necessary to buy and train a new monkey would be a net minus for animal welfare. First of all, whether someone was born in a breeding center, under a porch or in my living room doesn't make them more or less entitled to a life free of enslavement, torture and slaughter.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Of course, you're supposed to hop onto the following train of thought: These are good people. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

At the same time connections between the food industry and government agencies like the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have become so incestuous that we should expect little from them. Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A.

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). It has become the cornerstone of U.S. But this is not a hagiography.

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