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| | | |  | | Toward Justice for Animals Helping animals now and in the future does not require collaborating with the animal exploiting industry, promoting "humane" animal products, or otherwise trading away the foundations of long-term change. There are far better ways that we can be confident will help, and not hurt....more | | | |
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| | | |  | | Invasion of the Movement Snatchers We should be concerned that today‘s animal movement so closely resembles the vision of moral compromise, division and debilitation put forth by an industry PR consultant....more | | | |
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| | | |  | | Compassion for Sale? In a time not so long from now, practicing compassion will for many come to mean buying and eating "happy meat," a purported win-win-win for the animals, the industry and its customers......more | | | |
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| | | |  | | Truthiness is Stranger than Fiction Many leaders in today‘s animal movement are supporting and even helping develop animal product labeling schemes and "animal compassionate" husbandry standards......more | | | |
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| | | |  | | The Sociopath Next Door An estimated 4% of the US population do not have the capacity for conscience that most of us take for granted. Significantly, these individuals are often drawn to justice causes, in which the idealism of others offers a ready cover for their exploitative intent. A must-read for activists, educators and community leaders. ...more | | | |
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| | | |  | | Hogwash! Or, How Animal Advocates Enable Corporate Spin Our present course is expected to extinguish half of all plant and animal species by 2100. Even as you read this, free-living animals are being wiped out for companies such as Niman Ranch, Wolfgang‘s Steakhouse, and Whole Foods Market. ...more | | | |
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| | | |  | | Project for the New American Carnivore What does it mean when a major animal protection conference features a multi-million dollar rancher, a pig farmer, a turkey farmer, and others known for talking of compassion and animal welfare while at the same time profiting from their unapologetic killing of animals?...more | | | |
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Advanced Advocacy Practices
Use Language Mindfully
Develop Critical Thinking Skills
Resist Objectification
Expose conflicts of interest
Cultivate humility
Recognize Counterspin
The Humane Declaration
Essays and Talks
Against All Odds
Compassion for Sale?
Hogwash! Or, How Animal Advocates Enable Corporate Spin
Books
Toxic Sludge is Good for You
The Sociopath Next Door
Moral Courage
Doing democracy
Losing Ground
Organizations
The Center for Media and Democracy: Sourcewatch
“A principle is a principle, and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.”
-- Gandhi
“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing, rather than against the wrong thing. And of course if the right thing is established, wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grassroots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship, whether we work together or apart."
-- Peace Pilgrim
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
-- Gandhi
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