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Meditation on the Cheap

Animal Person

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. It is, however, a tool that has demonstrated, positive effects on the human brain. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions.

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient? What do you think?

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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. Tags: guest post. A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. you lose interest in social activities and friends.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

I didn't like the idea of the cloud for categories at first, but now I do because it's a great visual tool to determine what someone's focus (including mine) is. That's a far more useful tool than categories (not that they're the same thing). And I still wrestle with opportunities to decrease suffering. It's just not in me.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

As a result of the funding mechanisms whereby state agencies rely on hunter purchase of hunting tags to maintain operations, these bureaucracies are not going to promote predators in the face of opposition from hunters.”. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

He writes, "The dog remained a vital tool in biomedical research for more than 300 years and was the vehicle for a remarkable run of medical breakthroughs.". In 10 or 15 years of life, he suffered through multiple surgeries and infections and endless hours of restraint in a plastic chair. It does not make them more or less a "tool."