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The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine recently launched an ad campaign on the DC Metro system featuring Jasmine Messiah, an 8-year-old Miami girl who is a vegetarian and says her school has no vegetarian options available for her.
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The ad garnered more attention for asking why Obama supports different policies for his children than for [...]
Canada has been in the news lately primarily for its health care system, which may be wonderful or lacking, depending on who you ask and who’s telling you. But while Canadians may or may not be boycotting their own health system for Michigan’s, others are boycotting Canada due to its seal hunt.
Rarely have I found [...]
This is the second in a series of posts on animal rights-related issues and how they could be solved in a libertarian fashion, perhaps more effectively than current methods the Humane Society is using. Yesterday’s and today’s posts focus on the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009, and how the Humane Society might be [...]
One of the bills the Humane Society is really pushing now is the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009. This closes a loophole in federal law which was widened under Clinton in 1998, when the amount of money a garment had to be worth to be labeled with its fur content was increased from [...]
Last weekend I attended the Taking Action for Animals (TAFA) conference conducted by the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, DC. The conference was eye-opening for me in a few ways– the terrible ways that animals are treated and abused, in ways that I as a vegetarian and animal lover never even comprehended, [...]