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"Put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit," Harvey Diamond said. "If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." Diamond's epigram often brings a knowing chuckle to those who hear it, but it really mirrors an…

Forcible insemination (rape) of a dairy cow. When I tell people new to animal activism that veganism is also a feminist issue, I usually get some quizzical looks. Did you say feminism? What do women have to do with farm animals? This typical response is reflective of s…

A new Mercy For Animals (MFA) undercover investigation provides a shocking look into one of the nation’s largest pork producers–Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, Iowa. At this factory farm, mother sows and their piglets are forced to suffer brutal abuse and lives of unrele…

During this holiday season, I find myself wondering whether we have become so desensitized to the marketing and mass consumption of all things - even living beings - that we no longer recognize the meaning of love. In their latest commercial, McDonalds tells us through…

The swine flu (H1N1) is dangerously close to becoming a pandemic, a tragic consequence of the way we raise and treat animals in this country and throughout the world, but no one talks about this. We only hear about what we can do to keep from getting infected, which is…