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Ex NASA Employee Joins PETA Protest

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April Jean Evans was a NASA engineer, but resigned her position in protest over radiation experiments on monkeys. She's living with her brother now and falling into debt, but she is dedicated to working with PETA and other organizations to try to ban primates in experiments. That takes a lot of courage and conviction.

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Protest To Stop Pointless Radiation Experiments

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PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. Tags: animal research Stupid primates NASA. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. We can't even get out of Afghanistan and we're going to Mars. Give me an effing break.

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PETA Protests Military's Testing on Pigs

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The protest happened on Wednesday. They are fast, organized, committed and they get attention. Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. I'm late on this one. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Why do you suppose that is? There's nothing like a mirror to set you straight.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

My original blogroll included people/organizations that informed my journey and it brought me much criticism and labeled me a "new welfarist" and brought me all kinds of grief. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!).

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Various lobby groups, world food organizations, and consumer and environmentalist groups putting pressure on meat producers to utilize these waste products to feed animals might be a much more effective way of conserving grain than vegetarianism. None of these organizations requires a vegetarian commitment. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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