Ordinarily, resolutions are far too ambitious. I mean, isn't it pretty unreasonable to give up chocolate, especially the kind with hazelnuts in it? And if you buy an exercise bike, chances are, before long, it's going to end up as a place to hang your laundry when the dryer is broken, or it'll be posted on Craigslist.
So, why not …
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Thanks to a brave whistleblower, PETA has obtained horrific undercover video of live animals whose limbs were cut off for an archaic military training drill. The course was held earlier this year in Virginia Beach, Virginia, by private contractor Tier 1 Group.
In the shocking video, instructors repeatedly crack and cut off the limbs of live goats with tree …
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I was born and raised in Des Moines, and I've always been proud to be a Midwesterner. There's a clarity, a straightforwardness, a candidness, and an honesty—and a type of clear thinking—that comes from being from the Midwest.
That's why I was so disappointed to hear about a bill currently in Iowa's …
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On October 1 of last year, we published a blog about our undercover investigation inside a filthy dairy factory farm in Pennsylvania that supplies milk to Land O'Lakes. As a result of our investigation, the owners of the farm were charged with cruelty to animals. We received numerous e-mail …
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I sometimes hear people who aren't familiar with the breadth or depth of PETA's work say that the organization doesn't actually save animals-it just protests abuse. But a quick look at some of PETA's recent victories will quickly disprove that notion.
I think many of you already know about the extensive work that PETA …
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