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Dear Colleagues:

For many years now, I have been arguing that the large animal protection groups are, for the most part, partners with institutional exploiters and are, in effect, lobbying arms of the food industry. They do not challenge animal…

In a new blog post, Mary Martin, PhD links to a new…

Are you aware that palm oil is found everywhere, in such things as biscuits and soap, and thousands of products some of you probably eat, thinking it's OK as it's not an animal product.....

but in my opinion, vegans should never eat or use any product containing palm oil, as palm trees are grown on deforested land, and that land is the territory of the orang utans, who are killed for palm poil production. I personally always…

The Animal Rights Movement: Time for a Major Shift 

Backfire: the movement’s mistakes have failed…

In the ongoing debate between those who promote the abolitionist approach and those who promote the welfarist approach, some of the welfarists

claim that they support veganism so there is, in reality, little

difference between the two approaches on the matter…

Transcript of Dr. Will Tuttle's Guest Chat of 9 January 2010 at:

3pm US Pacific Time

6pm US Eastern

11pm UK Time

and 10 January 2010 at:

9am Australian Eastern Standard Time

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Sitting back watching TV tonight Channel 10 was doing a little bit of heavy promotion for their 2011 News and Current Affairs line up. George Negus came on to give us a little promo of what he will be doing regarding the new lineup.

The thing that got me interested in what he was saying was one simple statement that he made. Now the quote isn’t exactly verbatim, though the general gist of it should be ok. He said something along the lines of He asks the 1 question that other reporters…

In the new book, Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation, Co-author Professor Robert Garner says this:…

ARZone Open Forum Transcript

25 December 2010 at:…

Transcript of Jose Valle’s ARZone Guest Chat

18 December 2010 at:

2pm US Pacific Time

5pm US Eastern Time…

Veteran animal liberationist Ronnie Lee looks back at an article he wrote 35 years ago.

In 1975 I wrote a review, entitled ‘How Long Shall These Things Be?’, of Richard D. Ryder’s book Victims of Science for Peace News…

In The Longest Journey Begins with a Single Step: Promoting Animal Rights by Promoting Reform (http://www.satyamag.com/sept06/singer-friedrich.html), Peter Singer and PETA's Bruce Friedrich claim that an "odd" controversy has developed in "recent years" about whether animal advocates ought to pursue animal welfare as a means to achieve animal rights. This controversy is…