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Sowing the Seeds of Veganism

Animal Person

I could be reading into this, but it does appear that there's some discomfort on the part of non-vegans when they look through the calendar and I tell them the story. And when you're checking out at the health food store with your cans and bag of vegan dog food, how could that not be a seedy opportunity?

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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research

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Indeed, it often isn't even the best science: New drugs that show great promise in mice, for example, often confer zero benefit to humans, or even prove harmful. Even if you become 100 percent vegan, how much of the drugs you take, the makeup you wear and the cleaning products you use have been tested on an animal?

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On "Animal Activism"

Animal Person

I want to talk about why we shouldn't be using animals and that it's infinitely easier to be a vegan than it was 20 years ago. If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

Humanized' mice speak volumes (scienceblog.com). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights Culture Ecology Ethology speciesism The Left veganism. Related articles by Zemanta Rooks can use tools 'just like chimps' (guardian.co.uk). Why can we talk? Chimp 'showed malice aforethought' (guardian.co.uk).

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Part of me wants to see those posts out of curiosity, and the other part writes him off instantly and withdraws any previous credit given because he so obviously does not understand what animal rights is and doesn't know that many vegans and animal rights activists see their cause as one of a handful that are all connected.