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• Eating Animals: Foer Gets The Facts On Factory Farms

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  Eating Animals , the searing indictment of factory farming that Jonathan Safran Foer spent three years painstakingly researching, has got the champions of cheap chuck circling their wagons and denouncing the celebrated novelist’s latest work as just another piece of fiction. Chuck Jolley, writing for the Cattle ...
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• Mark Twain: Was he our first animal welfare advocate?

  
  Gary Bogue — Authority: 122
  Mark Twain. Photo by Flickr user sfjalar used under a Creative Commons License I just received the following note from my friend Camilla Fox. Check it out: Gary: For all of you literary buffs … “(Reuters) — Leading Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin`s latest research suggests that Twain was the ...
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• Celebrating the unique bond between people and their pets

  
  Scratchings-and-Sniffings — Authority: 424
  And now a word from our Sponsor: Tales for the Pet Lovers Heart ". Nestle Purina and Cincinnati-based Kroger Company (yes, that Kroger ), have partnered to launch their second annual campaign to raise funds for animal welfare by hosting the "Tales for the Pet Lovers Heart." Since Im all about this kind of thing - ...
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• Who’s The Dummy? Weird Dog Dinners And More As Voted By You!

  
  Dog Magazine dot net - Home of K9 Magazine — Authority: 503
  ---promotion--- One look at the X-ray and Lulu’s veterinarian knew this 2-year-old English bulldog’s case was far from usual. The radiograph revealed a large foreign mass in Lulu’s stomach and, upon close inspection, the outline of what appeared to be several pacifiers. Post-surgery, the contents of Lulu’s ...
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• Amber Valletta Joins IFAW Honorary Board Of Directors

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 592
  Actress Amber Valletta is lending a hand to the International Fund For Animal Welfare ( IFAW ),  one of the world’s leading international animal welfare organizations, by becoming a member of its Honorary Board of Directors. Ms. Valletta’s first act? Striking a pose for IFAW’s Tails for Whales campaign ...
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• 20 dogs found buried in Long Island back yard

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
  Long Island authorities are continuing their investigation of a woman in Selden whose back yard contained the buried remains of at least 20 dogs. Sharon McDonough, 43, has been charged with animal cruelty, WCBS-TV reported. “This is one of the worst cases of animal abuse I have seen in the last 25 years I have ...
  15 hours ago

• VW Loves Animals, Too! Go Ganley!

  
  Thoughts Fur Paws — Authority: 419
  It’s not often that you hear about a car dealership having an event that benefits animals, or a car dealership whose employees are dedicated to the animal welfare cause. But that’s exactly what Ganley Volkswagen/Subaru of Bedford is, and will be doing this Saturday. They are hosting the second annual “Feed the ...
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• Gadlinks for Monday 11.9.09

  
  Gadling — Authority: 700
  Filed under: Activism , Learning , Blogs , North America , United States , Ecotourism Its Wild America day here at Gadling, and we should feel grateful to have so many wild things to be crazy about here in America! Well, if nothing else, theres always "Where the Wild Things Are," which could very well be ...
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• Dog Drag Dog

  
  The Dreamin Demon — Authority: 478
  Knoxville, Tennessee – What’s up with all the animal cruelty stories lately? I swear to God I am not looking for them – it just seems as if all the local news outlets have a story about some jackass doing something stupid to an animal. In this case the jackass is 45-year-old Jimmy Lovell (nickname “Dog”) ...
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• Why We Love Cats and Dogs

  
  Land of PureGold Foundation — Authority: 430
  I was thrilled to discover this fabulous Nature film online as I missed its Feb 2009 debut on PBS. Why We Love Cats and Dogs – Pets and the Human-Animal Bond celebrates the fact that we share our lives with 73 million dogs and 90 million cats, their functioning as best friends and oftentimes the [...]
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• Rags to Riches Contest . . . The Story of Dina

  
  Land of PureGold Foundation — Authority: 430
  To thank the wonderful folks who provide intake, fostering, and adopting, I have created a $625 prize-filled Rags to Riches Contest.I want those stories that capture a dog’s ‘rags to wags’ transformation—and am awarding an amazing 1/3 of the entries with prizes! The photo here comes from our most recent, 22nd ...
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• Country diary: Bedfordshire

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Bedfordshire The other night, a deer stepped out in front of me as I drove past the tollhouse at Cople. The car headlights picked out the muntjac tiptoeing across the road, a ballerina on cloven points. The doe tripped out of the spotlight cast by my braking car and into the full beam glare of an oncoming vehicle. ...
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• News Feed November 6, 2009

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  Processing —> Depression? A new study from London’s University College indicates that a diet high in processed foods may lead to depression . Processing —> Diabetes? Diets high in processed meats “may increase the risk of developing type-2 diabetes by 40 per cent, according to a new meta-analysis ...
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• Roger Moore cant persuade me | Agnès Poirier

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  I know force-feeding is cruel, but the former James Bonds call to send foie gras the way of lifes other pleasures must be resisted I love Roger Moore and I love foie gras but the first wants to have the second banned . What cruel dilemma: que faire? Let me first explain my love for both. I know, Roger Moore is most ...
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• Attracting Hedgehogs to Your Garden | Caring for Hedgehogs

  
  Rural Diaries - country life, the countryside and rural issues — Authority: 98
  Should you be lucky enough to have a hedgehog visit your garden or wish to attract one and see it safely through the winter months there are lots of excellent books in libraries and experts at wildlife centres for advice.Failing being able to visit one of these then you can read the excellent information for [...]
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• The Ethics of Chronic Pain

  
  Pasture Raised and Grass Fed on Stony Brook Farm — Authority: 106
  For the second time this season, I have a pig with chronic pain. They aren’t sick and they grow fine, they are just clearly in constant pain in their back ends. There are no obvious injuries. They just mince around when they walk, sit on their butts while they eat, and spend most of their [...]
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• Ann Widdecombe: Why I became patron of Buttercups Goat Sanctuary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  As part of this weeks Jon Ronson takeover, Ann Widdecombe explains how she came to be patron of Buttercups Goat Sanctuary, and why she had to rename her first goat Cat sanctuaries and dog sanctuaries are on most peoples mental radar. Next come donkey sanctuaries which, again, most people know exist. Indeed I have ...
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• Giving animals a voice in the White House

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 528
  The Humane Society of the United States thinks it’s time animals have a representative in the White House — a human one. Both the society and the Humane Society Legislative Fund are asking the Obama Administration to appoint an Animal Protection Liaison who would work with the executive agencies and Congress to ...
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• Grace in Small Things – 191

  
  http://kikipotamus.wordpress.com — Authority: 131
  A wet day today…wonderful excuse for putting on jazzy rain boots. I got a chance to help a classmate today. The prof was illustrating one of the strategies of second language acquisition: making up a word if you don’t know the actual word. In her example, she told of a time she needed to find a dentist but ...
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• Live and let foie gras sales die, says Roger Moore

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Sir Roger Moore has funded an ad campaign to encourage shoppers to think again before buying foie gras, a delicacy he calls "tasteless". The former James Bond star has been trying to persuade Selfridges to discontinue sales of the pâté which, he says, is made using cruel methods to fatten goose livers. He has now ...
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