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DawnWatch: KFI interview on "Thanking the Monkey" and animal cruelty -- 5/3/08
Wayne Resnick, on Los Angeles's largest talk radio station, KFI, interviewed me about "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals" on his weekly show last Saturday, May 3.
The twenty minute interview is fun, but also covers some important g...
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DawnWatch: Extraordinary ABC report on egg farm horrors -- 5/5/08 plus NBC 5/6/08
Folks, apparently the alert below from May 6, on the Mercy For Animals battery cage investigation, did not send properly. (Learn more at www.mercyforanimals.org). So sorry. But it is definitely not too late to watch report and thank the ABC-I-team. Also, s...
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DawnWatch: NY Times columnist asks why we keeping giving horse racing "a pass." 5/4/08
William C. Rhoden, of the New York Times, has written eloquently on horse racing before. I quote him extensively in my section on the issue in Thanking the Monkey. And while every paper has carried the story of the death of Eight Bells at the Kentucky Der...
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DawnWatch: Lead NY Times article on goat leg rescue at Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary 5/1/08
There is a lovely article, featuring Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, on the front of the Metro section (page B1) of the Thursday, May 1, New York Times. The article, by Fernanda Santos, is headed, "A Rescued Goat Gets a Chance For a Normal Life On Four L...
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DawnWatch: Veggie baseball star on NY TImes Sports front page 4/27/08
The lead story on the front page of the Sunday New York Times sports section, April 27, is headed "A Cleanup Hitter Who Leaves Something on His Plate." The article, by Alan Schwarz, is about the newly vegetarian sports star, Milwaukee's first baseman, Pri...
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DawnWatch: Celebs and pet stores on Page Six, and Grizzly trainer death in much media 4/25/08
Before I report on the huge animal news this week, the killing a trainer by a grizzly bear, I will note a smaller and more trashy bit of news, which, however, touches on the important issue of pet store purchases. The New York Post's celebrity gossip page...
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DawnWatch: NY Times and International Herald Tribune on in vitro meat 4/21/08
The International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, Monday, April 21, both have stories about in vitro meat. The IHT story is brief, and headed, "Fake meat divides animal rights group; ." (P 6)
It reports:
"People for the Ethical Treatment of Anima...
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DawnWatch: Thanking the Monkey update -- new book by Karen Dawn coming out 4/29/08
Before I start DawnWatching for the week, I will give an update on my book "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals" which goes on sale next Tuesday, April 29!
(It can be ordered now at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061351857/da...
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DawnWatch: Newsweek tells us that Botox safety animal tests were inaccurate 4/21/08 edition
The current, April 21, issue of Newsweek (US edition, pg 45) has an article by Sharon Begley headed,
"A New Reason To Frown; Does Botox get into the brain? Troubling research contradicts earlier findings about the treatment."
It opens by telling us t...
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Dawnwatch: UK Guardian on global hunger -- "If you care, eat less meat" 15 April, 2008
The Tuesday, April 15 Guardian (London) has a commentary piece, by George Monbiot, headed
"Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat: A food recession is under way. Biofuels are a crime against humanity, but - take i...
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