I’m on “bunny duty” this week. I’m taking care of my Mom’s two rabbits while she is on vacation-which makes thelatest undercover investigation footage obtained by PETA all the more heartbreaking for me. Investigators went undercover on rabbit fur farms in China and France and documented that rabbits were living in cramped, …
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One of the best breakfasts I ever found was a Scottish Sunday breakfast at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton, a little holiday town on the coast of southern England. The buffet was almost as high as …
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A few years ago, I took my 8-year-old cat to the vet, expecting to be told that he was just fine. Instead, I found out that his kidneys were failing. This is usually a fatal condition and is common in older cats, but we never did figure out why it happened …
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One simple way that you can help animals is to write letters to the editors of newspapers and other publications. Below is a letter that my husband and I wrote to a local paper in our area-and they published it. Sorry, the pictures are a bit gruesome, …
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Like it or not, we are all being called upon to answer for the excesses of our society. My 401(k) plan has been downgraded, I think, to a 201(k) or maybe even a 101(k). My IRA is now my ira. And …
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