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The Practices of Compassion and Cruelty
“I don’t understand these people trying to help animals when there’s so much human suffering in the world. Shouldn’t they be helping humans instead?” I was asked this question at dinner the other day. One of the characters in my…
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The Ag-Gag Reflex: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act’s Impact on All of Us
On November 27, 2006, after heavy lobbying by the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was signed into law. The AETA makes it a terrorist offense to engage in certain speech and activity that causes an…
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Blackfish: Weighing in on the Killer Whale Controversy at SeaWorld.
Blackfish is a provocative documentary that tells the story of a killer whale that has killed several people at SeaWorld. There’s been an impassioned response to this film by many people, who are now demanding that all killer whales in…
