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Vegan food company is now the maker of the most popular fruit bar (not) on earth.</div>
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After being successfully sent on a cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month, That’s it. are officially the first vegan, two-ingredient, gluten- and GMO-free fruit bars to be launched into space. The snack was personally requested by astronauts readying for a five-month mission aboard the ISS and had to undergo extensive testing at <a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=5072&catId=8" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NASA</a>’s food lab to ensure its suitability for zero-g travel. “It’s exhilarating to think our product will actually be in orbit, providing a daily serving of fruit to an astronaut,” said That’s it. founder Lior Lewensztain. “This is a tremendous application of our vision to improve the quality of life worldwide by making fruit and its benefits accessible everywhere—now even in space.”</div>
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Beloved vegan food truck nails down a brick-and-mortar at new the Pennsy Market in New York City</div>
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New York City’s beloved food truck The Cinnamon Snail has emerged from its hiatus to open a brick-and-mortar storefront at the new Pennsy Market—a collection of food concepts by celebrity chefs Mario Batali, Pat LaFrieda, and Marc Forgione—near Penn Station. The location will cater to the commuter crowd and feature a dining lounge with communal tables, sofas, high top tables, and an outdoor space. The new shop will serve the truck's most popular burgers and sandwiches, along with weekly specials. Cinnamon Snail fans will be pleased to know that the famous doughnuts—such as the award-winning vanilla-bourbon crème brulée—will be on the menu every day as well. Chef/owner Adam Sobel told VegNews that he is "looking forward to being back with a huge daily presence," adding that another creative project is also in the works. The truck will also be back on the street in the spring to serve vegan food at special events and farmers' markets in New York and New Jersey. In addition to Cinnamon Snail, this year vegan trucks from around the country have found footing in the cities that love them, including comfort-food favorite <a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7249&catId=1" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Homegrown Smoker</a> in Portland, OR and ice cream and espresso gurus <a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7158&catId=1" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Seattle Cookie Counter</a> in Seattle, WA.</div>
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A 21-year-old man identified by police as Andre Robinson kicks cat at 1831 Fulton Street, video posted to Facebook.</h2>
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A Brooklyn man seen on a YouTube video senselessly kicking a harmless stray cat for laughs has returned to New York after serving a six-month jail stint in Virginia for credit card theft, the Daily News has learned.</div>
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Andre Robinson, 22, pleaded guilty to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bklyn-cat-kicker-busted-credit-card-fraud-da-article-1.2229444" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #015fb6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">using a stolen Wells Fargo Visa credit card</a> to buy a couple of hundred dollars worth of cigarettes from convenience stores in Shenandoah, Va.</div>
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He was expected in Brooklyn Criminal Court in May on the animal cruelty charges — but was collared by Staunton County, Va., authorities. Robinson served six months of a four year prison sentence, was released to serve four years of probation and ordered to pay $1,107.10 in restitution, according to court records.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-kicked-cat-king-owner-evicted-apartment-article-1.2399436" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #015fb6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">cat was adopted and named King</a>.</div>
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The cat kicked on video was later adopted and named King.</h2>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hands down THE best egg out there!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Follow Your Heart is a company I will always be loyal to. When I first went vegan, I was looking for something that would substitute for Hellman’s and sure enough I found it — </span><a href="http://followyourheart.com/vegenaise-family/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Vegenaise</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. It didn’t just taste and smell like mayo, it WAS mayo...without the eggs. I tried quite a few other brands, but none have surpassed Follow Your Heart’s line of Vegenaise. Then I came across their Tartar Sauce. WOW. Next came the </span><a href="http://followyourheart.com/vegan-cheese/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">vegan cheese</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, and finally —after waiting so long and not knowing if a vegan scrambled egg would ever reach the market — Follow Your Heart came through and it is AMAZING! </span><a href="http://followyourheart.com/veganegg/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">VeganEgg</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> is the closest you can get, and now we can make omlettes and Westerns and not think twice about it. Check out their website and you will find that they not only have great products, they have tips and recipes for using them, so you can toss away any worries about not knowing what, how, why or when to use VeganEgg and the other great-tasting, cruelty-free products they developed and sell so you can live kindly.</span></div>
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Stress kills Mindfulness. Here are Ten Things you can do to avoid it.</h2>
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Observations and Advice by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/captpaulwatson?fref=ts" style="background-color: transparent !important; border: 0px; color: #326dcd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Captain Paul Watson</a></h4>
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We shall not cease from exploration<br />
And the end of all our exploring<br />
Will be to arrive where we started<br />
And know the place for the first time.<br />
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I am often asked how I deal with stress considering I’m wanted by Japan and Costa Rica, I have a price on my head from the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica, <a href="http://www.seashepherdglobal.org/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border: 0px; color: #326dcd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we have numerous ships on the sea in dangerous campaigns</a>, I am being sued, threatened and harassed continuously and I have a lot of enemies, critics and people who wish me harm.</div>
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The answer to this is simple. I don’t deal with stress, because I do not suffer from stress. And these are ten primary reasons why, and for anyone suffering from anxiety, worry or stress, I would like to offer this advice<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is what it is.</span> Whatever the issue, whatever the threat, whatever the circumstances it simply is what it is. Stressing will not change the situation. All problems can be dealt with or ignored.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s always something.”</span> I say this all the time to my crews whenever a problem arises. “It’s always something and if it’s not something, it’s something else, but it is always something.” This means that life comes with obstacles, challenges and problems. Problems should not be unexpected. They are inevitable. All problems can be dealt with by dealing with them, delegating someone else to deal with them, or ignoring them. One thing for sure, on a ship, it is definitely always something.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stay calm.</span> There really is nothing worth getting upset about. For example, if I drop a bottle of wine or tomato sauce and it shatters, my reaction is, “hmmm okay, that needs cleaning up.” If I lose my phone, wallet or keys, my reaction is “I better replace what I lost and take measures to cancel my cards etc. More seriously when my regulator jammed once at 30 meters, I calmly signaled my partner to indicate my situation. Fretting about it will not recover the object. Panicking will not save your life. Anger emanates from stress. Without stress there can be no anger. Without stress there is no panic.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing material is permanent</span> and thus objects are not worth stressing about. Your car is damaged, something you own is stolen, or you lost your investments etc. It is really not important. Material objects and comforts are nice but they should not be anchors keeping you attached to stress. Move on.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends are friends or they are not.</span> A true friend will never betray you and if a “friend” does betray you than he/she is simply not a friend. Always walk away from betrayal and do not stress about it. True and loyal friends are rare treasures and should be treated as such. Loyalty returns loyalty. Compassion returns compassion. Courage returns courage. However you control only your own loyalty, compassion and courage, not that of others. And if they prove disloyal or they betray you, the treasure is no longer a treasure but merely a bauble to be tossed aside. Never stress about betrayal or loss. It is what it is. And if you’ve been betrayed once by someone, do not allow yourself to be betrayed again by that same person.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Loneliness is an opportunity.</span> It is an opportunity to discover yourself. You can’t find someone to love you if you don’t love yourself, and the secret to finding the right person is to not look for that person. Love should blossom from the ground like a lovely wild flower. It cannot be cultivated until after it is realized. Do not seek the seed but let the flower reveal an opportunity to you to grow and learn.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Relationships are like streams</span>, constantly flowing and as they flow they meet obstacles. Some are minor and others major but a relationship either flows around the obstacle or it is blocked, and if permanently blocked, it ends. This is not cause for stress or angry, resentment or jealously. It is what it is. Move on with appreciation and without bitterness for the relationship that is no more, and open your heart to other possibilities that life presents. The most important factor in maintaining a meaningful relationship with lovers, family or friends is simply acceptance. You need to accept them for who they are and they need to accept you for who you are. If you cannot accept another person for who they are, you need to stop inflicting stress on that person and to walk away. And if another person does not accept you for who you are, you need to walk away no matter the nature of the relationship. Stress kills and living with a person who does not accept you for who you are is like living with a person who is slowly killing you.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fear is a poison</span> that seeps into the soul and paralyzes our senses generating paranoia, insecurity and anger. Never let fear enter your life. There is really nothing to fear because things are what they are and will be what they will be. Remember you are the captain of your fate and the master of your soul and body. Who you are and what you wish to be depends on you and you alone. A person free of fear can accomplish far more than a person shackled to fear.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oscar Wilde once said</span> that the only thing worst than being talked about was not being talked about. People talk, they gossip, they make false accusations, some enjoy insulting and belittling others. They are easily dealt with by ignoring them. Responding to them is what they want, so don’t respond. Reacting to them is what they want, so don’t react. Such people are not worthy of causing stress to you. They come from a place of insecurity, jealously and fear. It is their stress, and their stress is their problem. It should not be yours.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px 66px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hoka Hey. It’s a good day to die.</span> It’s a Lakota saying and it means to not fear death and to stand firm for what you believe in, to fight against all odds and to never surrender. The one absolute of life is death. We all will die. What matters is not dying but living. It is how you live that is important and the only thing important about dying is how you die. It should be a death without fear, with dignity and with acceptance that it is what it is. The person without fear dies but once, the person shackled by fear dies slowly from stress and anxiety. Accept the inevitable, embrace the final reality of life and smile in the face of the infinite. The real secret to happiness is to not fear your own death, to not fear failure or ridicule, and not to fear others.</li>
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Stress is an obstacle to mindfulness</h3>
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Stress is an obstacle to mindfulness and an impediment to impeccability. Stress is the cause of migraines, cancer and many other ailments. It is the reason people smoke, take drugs, and drink excessively. When people ask me why I’ve never smoked anything, the reason being is that I have never felt inclined to do so. It never seemed healthy to me and I have always been mindful of the consequences. I think that stress blocks mindfulness of consequences. The same holds true to getting drunk or stoned. Without stress there is no need, nor a desire to do either.</div>
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Mindfulness is simply awareness of who you are and what you are doing. A person who is mindful is a person free of stress.</div>
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Depending upon luxuries leads to stress</h3>
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Unfulfilled desire leads to stress. Wanting nothing allows you to appreciate what you have. When you want nothing, you want for nothing. We all have basic needs for food, for warmth and shelter, for clothing and for companionship. Mindfulness allows you to be secure with your basic needs. Everything else is a luxury and although luxuries may be appreciated, you should not depend upon them. Depending upon luxuries leads to stress.</div>
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I have never worked a day in my life for the sole purpose of making money. I have never wanted to own anything and although I now do own property and material things, I do not allow those things to own me. I never engage in arguments about money or debts. I tend to avoid debts but when debts occur my position is that they are what they are and certainly not anything to be troubled with.</div>
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As far as basic needs, I learned to address this as a teenager when I left home at 15. I had no money, no place to stay, no prospects. I jumped a freight train, rode in the automobiles being transported from Toronto all the way to Vancouver. I arrived and camped in the abandoned gun towers on Wreck Beach and the first thing I did was to go to Vancouver City College to enroll. I found a job, moved out of the gun tower into a single room I rented and went from there. Looking back I see it as an adventure. I had nothing, but there was no stress. I simply reframed the insecurity of my position into an adventurous experience. I treated every job as a learning experience and working as a longshoreman, teamster, tree planter, warehouse man, short order cook, baker, painter, carpet layer, postman, tour guide, landscaper, and <a href="http://www.seashepherdglobal.org/" style="background-color: transparent !important; border: 0px; color: #326dcd; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">seaman</a> all were educational experiences.</div>
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Life is an adventure, death is inevitable</h3>
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The truth is that all of life is an adventure, the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, the experiences, the hardships, the thrills and the times that were lonely, happy or difficult. Even the loss of friends and family is simply dealt with by acknowledging that death is as it is. It is inevitable and although we may sincerely mourn we can do so without being stressed. This may be difficult to understand but it is indeed quite possible. With the passing of every friend, with the passing of my brother I have silently said “Good-bye” with the appreciation of having known them.</div>
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I have gone into situations many times where the risks of injury, death or imprisonment were practically a certainty. My approach has always been acceptance. And amazingly I am still alive and still free. When I have had nothing I have had everything I need, and when I have risked all, I have usually been successful. One of the things that concerns me is when I read about, or hear of people, especially young people committing suicide because of bullying. I wish that I could talk to such people before they make such a terminal decision. I would tell them to not let the insecurities and fears of others influence them in any way. I would tell them to accept that all the ridicule, insults, bullying and peer pressure is irrelevant and simply unimportant to who they are. If a parent is unaccepting of who you are, you need to say to them that if you are unacceptable to them they have no right to be your parent and you should walk away from them. Too many people are enslaved to parents, partners and friends who do not accept them.</div>
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Unacceptance and bullying are forms of violence and everyone should walk away from violence with dignity. No one should tell you what to believe, how to think, how to dress, how to behave or to dictate your sexual orientation or condemn you for your compassion, your passion, your imagination and your character. You are who you are and that is what it is, and how it should be, and if others do not tolerate who you are, don’t give them the satisfaction of destroying you. Simply symbolically spit in their eye, walk away and concentrate on being who you are for the benefit of yourself.</div>
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And if anyone is inclined to commit suicide my advice is to commit social suicide instead. That is, to drop out of your life as it is and begin another life, in another place with new ideas. Adventure is the antidote for depression. Take a chance, jump into the unknown and you will be amazed at what is awaiting you after you do.</div>
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I am not infallible. I have made mistakes in my life, many of them. I have at times in the past responded with anger although rarely physical and limited to the poison of the pen. I have let some people down, disappointed others and missed opportunities. But the one thing that I have been able to do in my life is to avoid stress.</div>
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At 64, I am healthy, happy, optimistic, and as passionate as I ever have been. Even more so because I have had the grace of experience and the satisfaction of achievement in those areas that I chose to address.</div>
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The point of this posting is this: Do not let stress ruin your health, your love or your life. Dreadnaught and live the adventure, this adventure that is life. It may well be the only life you will ever have. Even if you believe in the afterlife (oh and don’t stress about that either) the fact is you will never know for sure, so no sense wasting the unique life that you have.</div>
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A stress free life is not only possible, it’s also essential for your health and your happiness.</h4>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PETA is not an animal rights organization,</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nor are they an animal protection organization.</strong> PETA is an anti-animal suffering organization.</div>
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Ingrid Newkirk, who runs the operation, believes that eliminating the possibility of animal suffering is more important than the rights of animals to live.</div>
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To that end, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PETA</strong> <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">opposes</strong> TNR (trap-neuter-release of feral cats), <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">opposes</strong> no-kill shelters, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">kills thousands</strong> of dogs and cats in their own facilities, <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">favors BSL</strong> (breed-specific legislation aimed at banning breeds such as pit bulls, and passing legislation to exterminate them).</div>
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Many take exception to my criticism of PETA, pointing to the good work PETA has done, and is doing, in fighting against fur, factory farms, sealing, bullfighting, etc.</div>
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My response is simple. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PETA murders animals</strong> and there are <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">many organizations doing good work which do not murder animals.</strong></div>
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PETA rakes in millions of dollars each year, and spends NONE of it trying to find homes for the dogs and cats that come into their facilities.</div>
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I have no use for PETA and consider them an enemy of animal rights.</div>
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I admonish my comrades not to give a dime to PETA!</div>
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Target Troll Strikes Again, Posing as Doritos to Taunt Haters of Its LGBT Rainbow Chips <span class="subheadline" style="border: 0px; color: grey; display: inline; float: none; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Palatino LT Std', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, Georgia, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Melgaard takes on 'far more offensive' group</span><span class="byline" style="border: 0px; color: #cccccc; display: inline; float: none; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Palatino LT Std', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, Georgia, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By <a href="http://www.adweek.com/contributor/tim-nudd" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Nudd</a></span></h1>
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If you thought Target's haters were bad following the retailer's move to gender-neutral labeling, have a look at all the anti-gay critics swarming <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DoritosUSA" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Doritos' Facebook page</a> this week after the rollout of its <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/doritos-has-launched-limited-time-rainbow-chips-support-lgbt-community-166983" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LGBT-pride rainbow chips.</a></div>
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Who better to take them down a notch than Mike Melgaard, the guy who hilariously <a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/man-poses-target-facebook-trolls-haters-its-gender-neutral-move-epic-replies-166364" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">posed as a Target customer-service rep</a> last month—and has now done the same on the Doritos Facebook page—to make epic, sarcastic replies to critics.</div>
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Here are a few of his gems while posting as Doritos ForHelp:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Sep/doritos-troll-1a.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="652" /><br /> </div>
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We caught up with Melgaard on Wednesday, and he agreed that the Doritos critics have been even more off-putting than the Target critics.</div>
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"I would say the Doritos critics on Facebook have definitely been far more offensive than the critics of Target," he says, "I have seen people saying some pretty hateful things towards the LGBT community. What's even worse is that these people are really offended for no reason whatsoever.</div>
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"Frito-Lay decided to allow anyone a way to voluntarily donate for a cause which aims to help prevent suicide in the LGBT youth. Some of the reactions make it seem as if an army of LGBT people have been unleashed into their private homes. But I mean, this is America and I shouldn't be surprised that there is such a dramatic reaction over rainbow-colored chips."</div>
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This latest round of trolling took Melgaard a collective total of about four hours.</div>
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"I started on last Thursday evening and then finished it up Friday afternoon," he says. "But Facebook didn't shut my profile down until the following Saturday. Honestly, I'm willing to bet I'd still have the profile if it was not reported by some unhappy users."</div>
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See the rest of his replies below.</div>
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So we thought, why not collate a few good ones into one cool post? Who knows, it might even drive some sense into an unreasonable client and make him/her change his/her attitude? Wishful thinking, we guess. Enough talk, check them out below.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><span id="more-12677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">1.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="How would you like your graphic design? Pick two - fast, cheap, great or free (venn diagram)" class="alignnone wp-image-12680 size-full" height="700" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="How would you like your graphic design? Pick two - fast, cheap, great or free (venn diagram)" width="524" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">2.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="The Designer Vs The Client" class="alignnone wp-image-12681 size-full" height="505" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="The Designer Vs The Client" width="780" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">3.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Designer Vs Regular People" class="alignnone wp-image-12853 size-full" height="692" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-3b.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Designer Vs Regular People" width="678" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">4.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="The Creative Process = Work Begins > Procrastination > Panic > Crying > Deadline" class="alignnone wp-image-14289 size-full" height="430" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-4a.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="The Creative Process = Work Begins > Procrastination > Panic > Crying > Deadline" width="660" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">5.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Life of a graphic designer - what everyone thinks I do" class="alignnone wp-image-12778 size-full" height="541" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-5d.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Life of a graphic designer - what everyone thinks I do" width="780" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">6.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Every time you stretch a font, somewhere, a designer cries." class="alignnone wp-image-13453 size-full" height="506" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-6b.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Every time you stretch a font, somewhere, a designer cries." width="685" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">7.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Walked into a very expensive restaurant, sat down, was handed a menu. Comic Sans. Got up and left. Life is hard." class="alignnone wp-image-12686 size-full" height="600" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-7.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Walked into a very expensive restaurant, sat down, was handed a menu. Comic Sans. Got up and left. Life is hard." width="400" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">8.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Everything looks official with tiny leaves around it. False, it only works if you use a good serif font." class="alignnone wp-image-12687 size-full" height="528" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-8.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Everything looks official with tiny leaves around it. False, it only works if you use a good serif font." width="455" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">9.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Things aren't always #000000 and #FFFFFF" class="alignnone wp-image-12688 size-full" height="566" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-9.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Things aren't always #000000 and #FFFFFF" width="400" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">10.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="How to piss off your designer friends and give them a migraine." class="alignnone wp-image-12689 size-full" height="654" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-10.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="How to piss off your designer friends and give them a migraine." width="498" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">11.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Don't use that tone with me (Pantone)" class="alignnone wp-image-12690 size-full" height="405" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-11.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Don't use that tone with me (Pantone)" width="448" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">12.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="What kind of a client do you want?" class="alignnone wp-image-12691 size-full" height="744" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-12.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="What kind of a client do you want?" width="560" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">13.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Yo Momma is a shitty designer" class="alignnone wp-image-12692 size-full" height="542" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-13.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Yo Momma is a shitty designer" width="780" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">14.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Keming - The result of improper kerning" class="alignnone wp-image-12693 size-full" height="500" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-14.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Keming - The result of improper kerning" width="500" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">15.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="I shot the serif" class="alignnone wp-image-12694 size-full" height="480" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-15.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="I shot the serif" width="480" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">16.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="This is for using comic sans" class="alignnone wp-image-12695 size-full" height="714" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-16.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="This is for using comic sans" width="500" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">17.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="I'm very font of you because you're just my type." class="alignnone wp-image-12696 size-full" height="600" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-17.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="I'm very font of you because you're just my type." width="464" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">18.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="If you're having font problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 fonts but Comic Sans ain't one." class="alignnone wp-image-12697 size-full" height="312" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-18.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="If you're having font problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 fonts but Comic Sans ain't one." width="236" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">19.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="When you can select all the feathers of a morning sparrow without missing a single one, only then will you be able to be a true Photoshop master." class="alignnone wp-image-12790 size-full" height="421" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-19b.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="When you can select all the feathers of a morning sparrow without missing a single one, only then will you be able to be a true Photoshop master." width="735" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">20.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="There is always someone willing to do it cheaper" class="alignnone wp-image-12699 size-full" height="460" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-20.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="There is always someone willing to do it cheaper" width="600" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">21.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="I like my coffee how I like my type: Black" class="alignnone wp-image-12700 size-full" height="577" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-21.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="I like my coffee how I like my type: Black" width="560" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">22.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="My next tattoo will be "Helvetica" written in Arial. When a woman corrects me on it, I will marry her." class="alignnone wp-image-12856 size-full" height="403" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-22b.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="My next tattoo will be helvetica written in Arial. When a woman corrects me on it, I will marry her." width="403" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">23.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Corporate Graphic Design Guide" class="alignnone wp-image-12702 size-full" height="500" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-23.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Corporate Graphic Design Guide" width="487" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">24.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Graphic designer parking only. Violators will be Photoshopped." class="alignnone wp-image-12703 size-full" height="570" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-24.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Graphic Designer parking only. Violators will be Photoshopped." width="570" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">25.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood." class="alignnone wp-image-12704 size-full" height="904" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-25.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood." width="700" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">26.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Please keep the door closed - Please don't use Comic Sans. We're a Fortune 500 company, not a lemonade stand." class="alignnone wp-image-15495 size-full" height="600" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-26b.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="Please keep the door closed - Please don't use Comic Sans. We're a Fortune 500 company, not a lemonade stand." width="450" /></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 100; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.8rem;">27.</h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="What's thrilling about graphic design?" class="alignnone wp-image-12706 size-full" height="484" src="http://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/funny-graphic-designer-posters-charts-27.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" title="What's thrilling about graphic design?" width="442" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px;">If we had to pick three, it would be tough, but no. 6, 22 and 26 would be our favourites. What about you? Share this post with a fellow designer and voice your views in the comments below.</div></div>spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-49969562694873463822015-08-16T23:28:00.001-04:002015-08-16T23:28:25.577-04:00WHISTLEBLOWER: PETA Ex-Employee Alleges She Was Encouraged to Steal and Kill Pets, and to Falsify Records | Douglas Anthony Cooper<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-anthony-cooper/whistleblower-peta-employee-allegations_b_6648696.html">WHISTLEBLOWER: PETA Ex-Employee Alleges She Was Encouraged to Steal and Kill Pets, and to Falsify Records | Douglas Anthony Cooper</a><br /><br /><br />
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For three years I <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="eb51bbeb-cc93-44ff-a463-41559d40d11d" id="9c2de971-0f9c-4832-b715-93c026ddd6fd">have investigated</gs> People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' regular slaughter of dogs and cats at their headquarters in Norfolk, but I have never encountered first-person testimony of this nature. According to Harper-Troje, Ingrid Newkirk authorized her staff to steal pets -- animals that were then killed, immediately -- and records of killing were routinely doctored. Ms. Harper-Troje is an exceptionally brave woman -- she is willing to go on the record and use her real name. She will be eviscerated.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Some of this is told in a blog post, which I quote here at <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c435a621-c00f-4dc4-a2f1-b7389beb8651" id="c88c2db2-d58b-407d-9d88-b15320f9bd2b">length but</gs> urge you to read in its entirety: <a href="https://mom2nomads.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/rescued-by-black-boy-how-a-neglected-dog-set-me-back-on-my-path-away-from-peta/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">"Rescued by Black Boy: how a neglected dog <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c435a621-c00f-4dc4-a2f1-b7389beb8651" id="01fcf285-a01a-4eac-8788-d7cc8e31d298">set</gs> me back on my path, away from PETA."</a> The extent to which PETA has stolen animals and falsified documents, however, is not revealed there. My own conversations with Ms. Harper-Troje have gone into considerably more detail.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Note that the following is the testimony of one woman, and must be considered merely allegation until substantiated. Heather Harper-Troje is hardly a disreputable citizen, however: She's married to a Foreign Service Officer -- the chief of the public diplomacy section at the American embassy in Honduras -- and she has told me that she would be willing to testify to the following in court, under oath. I contacted PETA earlier today to request a comment, and have not yet heard back. I will provide updates here should they respond.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">These are allegations of crimes committed fifteen years ago, and the statute of limitations has long expired. The claims have become urgently relevant, however, as PETA is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-anthony-cooper/va-attorney-general-creat_b_6633036.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">increasingly embroiled</a> in a scandal involving the <a href="http://wavy.com/2014/11/12/man-claims-peta-stole-killed-family-pet/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">theft and killing of a little girl's dog</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">As always with PETA, the story begins with good intentions, and good deeds. Ms. Harper-Troje mostly believed in what she was doing as a field worker; she spent a lot of time in poor neighborhoods, "getting to know people, educating them on the benefits of spaying and neutering, vaccinating, proper nutrition, and the importance of socialization for dogs."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">And she was not considered an inferior employee, by any means: "My first performance review earned me a raise and accolades from Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA and my direct supervisor." But she had what is apparently considered by PETA to be a serious moral flaw: She wanted to keep rescued animals alive.</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">In the beginning, I wanted to adopt out the majority of animals I brought in, and sometimes I neglected to report when I picked up an animal -- in doing so, I could bring them to a local shelter, because the alternative was euthanasia at PETA.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">But surely PETA tries to find a home for an animal that's clearly adoptable? You'd gather this from their website; on a page entitled "<a href="http://features.peta.org/petasaves/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">PETA Saves</a>," they explain that "PETA performs the heartbreaking task of euthanizing animals who are unwanted for one reason or another: because they are aggressive, sick, hurt, elderly, or at death's door and because no good homes exist for them."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Contrast this with what Ms. Harper-Troje alleges she witnessed:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I remember one day bringing a tiny white dog into Ingrid's office, to tell her I wanted to adopt her out, not <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9a76c76b-400b-4b31-b0a9-6854eaef3fd9" id="e451a555-bef3-4b66-97a9-d6ef6d2951db">euthanize</gs> her. She rolled her eyes and asked why that dog was any more worthy than any of the countless other animals in shelters waiting for a home. I told her she was an adoptable dog: small, social, sweet; could be placed with very little trouble. After sarcastically berating me, with a smile on her face, she turned to a man in her office and asked what he thought. He said she was very cute. She sighed and said something along the lines of, "fine, do what you want." So I found her a home.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Consider the allegation here. We are told that the urge to find a home for an adorable, healthy dog met this response from Ingrid Newkirk: The famous animal lover "rolled her eyes" and berated her employee as sentimental.</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I had to fight hard for each adoption and, increasingly, I encountered great resistance. I heard phrases like "a waste of resources" and "not adoptable" -- my desire to save each animal was belittled as naive and trivial. I was told that I was missing the bigger picture.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">That's unquestionably a large, ugly picture. If you worked for PETA, you were expected to kill adoptable animals. And, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/douglas-anthony-cooper/peta-kill_b_1352462.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">as I reported in a long series of articles</a>, everything suggests that the picture painted fifteen years <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b3dcf4b2-c5b6-4eb2-af9c-52a0ed34918d" id="b999205f-dc20-47df-9007-3babe74735b3">ago is</gs> an accurate portrait of PETA today.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">PETA likes to call their headquarters <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1c9fe5ff-9896-4955-9fe0-217e9fbcd105" id="242ceb79-75e7-4e04-ba3c-7c04ced0611d">a</gs> "shelter of last resort." Ms. Harper-Troje's description warrants that bleak term:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">What was referred to as the "shelter" was a large, empty storage closet across from our office. The only other holding <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bf3f1ed5-720d-4bf1-b7ab-7b5bddd5000e" id="5c8148f3-f896-4f73-a6c0-dadf6c52dc8a">facility we</gs> had <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bf3f1ed5-720d-4bf1-b7ab-7b5bddd5000e" id="4da6230c-2107-42d0-b63d-2d09bf4eca46">was</gs> in the warehouse, where the animals were euthanized. And when I did use the room across from my office as a holding area for animals, Ingrid would ask why I hadn't already <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c0fb8a43-236c-4ffb-a6bd-5c8b64ccd747" id="7eb4ac71-a7cf-4ce1-97de-0032c39073db">euthanized</gs> them: one time nailing me to the wall because the litter of puppies I'd placed in there for a night had pooped everywhere; I was told to <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c0fb8a43-236c-4ffb-a6bd-5c8b64ccd747" id="715a1ef7-9185-4f78-8379-02b2e50419f9">euthanize</gs> the puppies immediately. Needless to say, Ingrid refused our request for a shelter: waste of resources, not the aim of the program, animals beyond hope, same old, same old.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Are we meant to imagine that this entire litter of puppies was "aggressive, sick, hurt... <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="96253788-6468-4be2-b4f3-f53dd1190628" id="c562419e-f848-494a-b384-9557c4f168a9">or</gs> at death's door"?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Perhaps we believe that these puppies were brought in by an owner desperate to have them killed. This is what Mary Tully would like us to believe regarding today's kind and gentle organization. Ms. Tully, who insists that she does not work for PETA, has an entire site devoted to explaining and excusing PETA's mass killing. And <a href="http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/bill-aims-to-prevent-peta-from-killing-animals/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">she wrote this comment last week:</a> "PETA's Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4ceb0384-a46d-48b2-b55b-fdbb3be39bfa" id="3f4e2c4c-8fc0-44cf-9422-c8265b1e7562">Services</gs> animal reporting data and shelter inspection reports confirm that nearly every animal PETA receives for euthanasia is received from his or her guardian for this service."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">The reports say no such thing; you are welcome to read them for yourself. <a href="https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2013" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Here's</a> the kill report submitted by PETA to the government in 2013, for instance.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">According to Ms. Harper-Troje, when she worked at PETA, people certainly weren't handing over their beloved pets to be <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c2fcc1c8-5637-44db-a656-f662c24be6ee" id="e08acb7e-5d1b-4a34-94ac-ff2269f5ce5f">euthanized</gs>: "I never had an owner tell me they wanted their animal killed." What about the woman who surrendered the white dog that Ingrid was so keen on not re-homing? No, that owner "wanted her adopted out, and she was an extremely adoptable dog." What about those puppies Ms. Harper-Troje tried to save? "They were surrendered by their owner -- I picked them up. We were supposed to find them homes, but they were all <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fea93580-bbe6-4d9b-95cb-da4ce3062c2a" id="46b23f3a-ab8c-41f3-b3e2-adc6fc786420">euthanized</gs>."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">PETA's yearly kill rates have always been approximately the same -- generally over ninety percent of the animals taken in by PETA are killed. So are we meant to believe that this part has changed? That <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="40ab00ce-9034-4434-935e-377a4b04f4cd" id="0467f87b-e107-4ab8-8f04-6842d784810a">only now are</gs> owners explicitly requesting that their pets <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="40ab00ce-9034-4434-935e-377a4b04f4cd" id="fc8f6323-3c9c-4f0e-af7b-278c3ca2bfe6">be</gs> <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="40ab00ce-9034-4434-935e-377a4b04f4cd" id="a238bca2-825e-4e69-a71d-54364124fe5e">euthanized</gs>? "If anyone ever came to me for <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0fa31d41-232f-4077-888f-ae8307f500e5" id="7d1da434-bca5-448e-8453-1e5a35e50252">euth</gs> service it was so rare that I don't remember one instance of it happening."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Here we are debating over the status of animals willingly surrendered. The basic facts have long been known. What Ingrid Newkirk has never come close to admitting, however, is that among the animals killed by PETA are stolen pets.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">"If we felt an animal was in immediate danger we would steal them."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Did any of these stolen animals get re-homed? "To my recollection, no. If you adopt out dogs you <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="15ec1355-97f4-4052-82a4-9f217ad2e996" id="06f431cc-f24d-42c6-bd03-3355812a29b1">steal then</gs> you leave a trail, in theory. If they just go <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a9ba7fcc-ec51-4db2-909e-abc25bc91421" id="f87ef41f-7e15-4210-942c-b38af52d09ab">poof</gs> there is no trail."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">And Ingrid Newkirk herself approved of this? "It was what she told us to do -- it was standard operating procedure."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I asked Ms. Harper-Troje whether she could give me any idea of the number of animals stolen.</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I really can't. Not with any accuracy -- it's been so long. They were the minority, by far, but it was an acceptable practice. My criteria is if I really felt that an animal was in a life-or-death situation, like Black Boy, then I would steal them. In eight months I think it would be fair to say I could count the number of animals I stole on one hand....</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 8px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I was less inclined to steal; I wanted to work with people, educate, etc.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">But she's sure that others were also stealing? "That I am 100% positive of. Absolutely."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72a6b334-b83b-4658-8735-632b1294b7f9" id="2dac5355-8a37-477c-8d0f-9b4121e5d408">Theft</gs> was clearly less common than <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72a6b334-b83b-4658-8735-632b1294b7f9" id="a84edec6-2b3b-4de1-9f56-6c9a4a3a5402">another</gs> crime that Ms. Harper-Troje says Ingrid Newkirk encouraged them to commit: the falsification of records. "Doctoring logs <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="640d371e-9b88-4213-a35a-af3db22b5278" id="d37387bc-4d71-465f-a709-e43526180588">was</gs> routine."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Routine meaning weekly? Monthly?</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">As far as I remember it was daily. Because each time you <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e925a2a4-1895-489b-8a99-366c2209d3ea" id="f45b7d74-fbd1-499d-83fc-c2a23a782ed0">euth</gs> an animal you enter it in the log -- if you say the animal is ten pounds heavier than he is, you've given yourself room to <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e925a2a4-1895-489b-8a99-366c2209d3ea" id="4b7cede6-2058-411d-88f7-6cd9255c876e">euthanize</gs> another ten-pound animal off the books.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">For those of us who care about animal rescue, this crime is considerably more horrifying than well-meaning theft. Both are of course illegal, but here we have a self-described "animal rights activist" allegedly telling her employees to doctor official records, so that her organization can kill even more animals than they report. If this is true, Ingrid Newkirk was encouraging them to break the <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7eff7439-8567-49d9-9641-80c7f260f453" id="5116ca9a-31f6-4d5d-a35a-42957e986ce7">law not</gs> in order to save, but to slaughter.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Heather Harper-Troje wrote about her PETA experiences last year, but this part is new. In <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8b42df5d-5e58-4c16-bf84-000fb004e2f4" id="e7ba3d05-3e25-4097-8e45-8b6ab51f410d">the earlier</gs> account, she revealed only what she determined was "common knowledge."</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the first time I've come out and said how Ingrid ran the unit, and encouraged us to break the law, lie, etc. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e15cee97-909a-4793-91da-bc0bb33977e6" id="47806d50-b49f-42c8-95da-b766b78ef221">Pheno</gs> B, as you know, is a controlled substance, and we used ketamine to sedate when needed. I was under direct orders from her to doctor logs, in order to compensate for what would have otherwise been missing <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c1c638d9-af1b-4d8d-b808-f1eb5259d90a" id="7bbdcdee-1232-49ac-88fc-c25283c07064">pheno</gs> and ketamine.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">She details this in her blog post:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I know from first hand experience that the PETA leadership has no problem lying. I was told regularly to not enter animals into the log, or to <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9a5ca94e-535e-4b72-ae87-e4fa696d52ad" id="3bd70d25-1090-48d0-b83f-8ba1eec4942e">euthanize</gs> off-site in order to prevent animals from even entering the building. I was told regularly to greatly overestimate the weight of animals whose <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bb40a0ea-68e0-47cc-8917-ae88ba772039" id="3dc1c6d1-13de-44d4-90f4-b3a27afad40b">euthanasia we</gs> recorded, in order to account for what would have otherwise been missing "blue juice" (the chemical used to euthanize); because that allowed us to euthanize animals off the books. I was told <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="dbb1aead-8ec9-4919-91a6-85d0c3579b98" id="8e29508e-abf5-40c0-95d3-9b17484fd345">regularly to</gs> say whatever I had to say in order to get people to surrender animals to me: lying was not only acceptable, it was encouraged.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironically, the circumstance of Heather Harper-Troje's firing did not involve the controversial practices of killing, theft, and falsifying documents. It involved the much less controversial practice of neutering dogs. PETA, along with most animal welfare organizations, has long purported to endorse this strategy wholeheartedly.</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">One day I took part in a meeting about the "allocation of resources" for our program. Ingrid announced that, in order to cut costs, we would no longer be paying to have male pit bulls neutered -- we would only pay to have females spayed. She asked for feedback, which I knew she did not really want, but I spoke up anyway. I told her that neutering was a necessity: without it the male dogs would be vulnerable to being used as fighting dogs. She maintained we didn't have the funds for it.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">PETA's annual budget, of course, is never less than jaw-dropping. Their <a href="http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=14774" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">total </a><a href="http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=14774" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">revenues</a><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ffb29fc1-53c2-43f5-92f7-2e45c6195b6d" id="2f20fbdb-49a3-4370-b5ad-0ec7621f54eb">in</gs> 2014 -- mostly donations -- amounted to $51,933,001.</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I took a deep breath, and told Ingrid that if we discontinued the neutering program in the particular area where my focus was, then we would be as guilty of perpetuating the cruelty of dog fighting as those who were fighting the dogs, and that the suffering and death of each dog lost <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9a44feef-0806-4419-b6cf-3cacfd10b148" id="b46ab1f8-aafe-41db-a2a2-52d70142c7bf">to</gs> a fight would be on our hands.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d75bdfdc-eb9c-41a0-b9ac-9fd551b25d49" id="7a43c470-5ffa-4abb-8cdd-6b68f5982ced">Honesty</gs> of this sort is apparently not appreciated by the ethical founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:</div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">A few weeks later I was given a letter of dismissal from the woman who had started out as my assistant but had since become my supervisor. (Her promotion happened around the time I'd stopped being such a good little soldier.) <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="581b5a39-dd91-4fb1-a5e3-df0beacef129" id="d8f16eef-9592-46ae-909a-6703458654d4">Not cut</gs> out for a job in animal rescue, best of luck, effective immediately.</div><div class="ql" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="qr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></blockquote><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">So. If you insist upon finding homes for animals, and endorse a policy that would fund the neutering (as opposed to killing) of dogs, you are -- by PETA's definition -- unfit for a job in "animal rescue."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">As I say, Heather Harper-Troje is a truly courageous woman. She will be vilified for refusing, finally, to remain silent about PETA's grotesque "shelter of last resort." The ubiquitous posse of shills and trolls is guaranteed to insult her, to insult her family, to question her ethics and her sanity -- we've seen it happen again and again. (I've become accustomed to it, but not everyone finds it easy to simply shrug off defamation.)</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm certain we'll be told that Heather Harper-Troje was fired for incompetence. This is the libel generally cooked up to discredit a whistleblower:<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Oh, we're simply dealing with a disgruntled employee.</em></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Here I think we can safely believe Ms. Harper-Troje, however, as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088c3; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">it accords with everything we know about this depraved organization:</a> "I was good at my job. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 48px; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 50px;">Target Loved the Guy Who Trolled Its Haters, Judging by This Genius Facebook Post </span><span class="subheadline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: grey; display: inline; float: none; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Palatino LT Std', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, Georgia, serif; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sneaky move is pretty great trolling itself</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #00a99d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 48px; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 50px;"> </span><span class="byline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #cccccc; display: inline; float: none; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Palatino LT Std', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, Georgia, serif; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By <a href="http://www.adweek.com/contributor/tim-nudd" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 204, 204) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Nudd</a></span></h1>
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How did Target really feel about Mike Melgaard posing as a Target customer service rep on Facebook and <a href="http://adweek.it/1DMGYEK" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">caustically replying</a> to angry messages left by haters opposed to Target's gender-neutral product labeling?</div>
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The retailer issued a pretty dry statement after AdFreak broke the story yesterday. ("Clearly this individual was not speaking on behalf of Target," it said.) But behind the scenes, the brand was apparently loving it—at least judging by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/target/photos/a.127542808119.106243.8103318119/10153611295773120/?type=1&theater" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this Facebook photo</a> that Target posted on Thursday evening.</div>
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The photo showed a couple of toy trolls. The caption <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2246b07e-93e4-4f38-a27e-e3a2cbb6839d" id="13ef8a20-1a78-43f7-bc08-5dcca304b02f">read</gs>: "Remember when Trolls were the kings of the world? Woo hoo! They're back and only at Target stores."<br />
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Not only was this a clear reference to Melgaard's antics, but Melgaard himself responded in the comments—under his own profile—writing, "Target. Seriously. You are AWESOME." (With almost 2,500 likes, that is the most-liked comment on the photo.)</div>
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Target didn't reply to Melgaard's comment (it probably decided it has to keep its distance, officially). But it did obliquely refer to his trolling in a reply to the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">second</em> most-liked comment on the thread:<br />
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Following Melgaard's expert trolling, Target's post is pretty devious as well. And it confirms Melgaard's earlier hunch that, yes, Target's PR people are smart enough to know that a guy like Melgaard is their friend, not their enemy.</div>
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spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-38373299172430688632015-08-14T20:57:00.000-04:002015-09-25T20:57:51.592-04:00Man Poses as Target on Facebook, Trolls Haters of Its Gender-Neutral Move With Epic Replies | Adweek<a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/man-poses-target-facebook-trolls-haters-its-gender-neutral-move-epic-replies-166364">Man Poses as Target on Facebook, Trolls Haters of Its Gender-Neutral Move With Epic Replies | Adweek</a><br />
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Brands can't be as honest as they might like in dealing with haters on Facebook. But sometimes other Facebook users can do it for them.</div>
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That dynamic played out in particularly rogue fashion on Target's Facebook page this week. As the retailer received a steady stream of nasty comments from people upset about its <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/could-targets-move-away-gender-based-signs-kick-start-trend-166315" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">move toward gender-neutral labeling</a> of children's products in its stores, Facebook user Mike Melgaard came to Target's defense—in a provocative manner. He created a fake Facebook account and posed as a Target customer service rep—under the name Ask ForHelp, with a bull's-eye profile pic—and began excoriating the haters with comically sarcastic replies.</div>
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He got away with it for about 16 hours, too, commenting on about 50 posts before the fake account was shut down. Here are a few of his greatest hits:<br />
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Melgaard tells AdFreak that he was just surfing Facebook on Sunday night when he noticed that Target was moving away from gender-based labels in both the toy and children's bedding sections.</div>
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"Immediately, I knew there would be your typical outraged American spouting emotional reactions on their Facebook page," he says. "After taking a look, I was literally laughing out loud at my computer. A few more minutes in and it struck me how hilarious it would be to portray myself as a parody customer service rep. So, I did just that, and the rest was history. Honestly, it was like striking comedy gold. Every one of these people gave me the ammunition I needed for a great response."</div>
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A self-described "pot-stirrer," Melgaard says his stunt was more about the comedy than taking a stance on the issue. "I definitely side with Target and support their decision wholeheartedly," he says. "That being said, this was, for me, more about the laughs. I absolutely love satirical humor, and I think America could use a little more laughter."</div>
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Target gave this statement to AdFreak on Thursday: "At Target, we are committed to providing outstanding guest service to our guests wherever we engage with them—in our stores, online, or on our social pages. Clearly this individual was not speaking on behalf of Target. Should guests ever have questions on whether a communication from Target is legitimate, we encourage them to reach out to guest relations at 1-800-440-0680."</div>
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[<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UPDATE</strong>: That was a pretty dry statement. But on Thursday night, Target offered a pretty clear endorsement of Melgaard's antics by posting <a href="http://adweek.it/1IOaeJZ" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 169, 157) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this genius photo to Facebook</a>—an ode to trolls if ever there was one.)</div>
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For his part, Melgaard says he probably wasn't doing the retailer any harm.</div>
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"Of course they could get upset," Melgaard says, "but in this day and age I'm willing to bet their marketing team is intelligent enough to predict people like myself who come along to 'stir the pot.' I actually suspect that what I did shone an overall positive spotlight on Target."</div>
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spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-72077988036608358722015-08-07T20:29:00.001-04:002015-08-07T20:29:33.583-04:00#StandUp250 - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/StandUp250">#StandUp250 - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society</a> Repost!<br /><br /><br />
<div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="banner-standup250-620w" height="123" src="http://www.seashepherd.org/images/stories/pages/standup250/banner-standup250-620w.jpg" style="margin: 2px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" width="620" /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">In the Faroe Islands, where the brutal and archaic mass slaughter known as the “<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b14f52bf-69d5-4e69-b55a-9d674d5a21c0" id="6b89b1bb-04bd-4d68-9e5d-28121a530105">grindadrap</gs>” or “grind” claims the lives of hundreds of cetaceans each year, 250 pilot whales have been slaughtered to date during the current hunting season. Sea Shepherd volunteers are stationed on the ground and at sea in the Faroes, bringing worldwide attention to this cruel slaughter, despite draconian new Faroese laws that target anyone opposing the grind or even approaching one of these horrific hunts.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">Seven Sea Shepherd <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="567deb63-4086-46fe-8f81-a359b720ef2d" id="ab1f8054-b820-40fa-b0c8-d144a7035ceb">crewmembers</gs> have been arrested and charged, and the Royal Danish Navy has been assisting the local Faroese police in these arrests. Denmark is a member state of the European Union (EU), and the slaughter of cetaceans is illegal under EU law. So why is Denmark helping to uphold the cruel and unnecessary hunting of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;">On August 14, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will stand in solidarity with the pilot whales and with <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b3ed20c8-477a-43dc-abf0-6d5a05600e00" id="102d1276-ce31-4038-a4ef-c0899c278951">Sea Shepherd crew</gs> in the Faroe Islands, as we demonstrate outside the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, DC and Danish consulates across the United States. We will be there to demand justice for the 250 pilot whales whose lives were senselessly taken on July 23, and for the brave and compassionate Sea Shepherd volunteers who have been arrested.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">JOIN US</strong>: Stand with Sea Shepherd as we apply pressure on Denmark and the EU to stop this cruel massacre of whales and dolphins in the Faroe Islands once and for all! Check below to see if there is a demonstration in your area on August 14. STAY TUNED: More cities to be added soon.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PRINT </strong>a poster to take to your local Danish consulate demo: <a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/images/stories/pages/standup250/standup250-ArrestPoster.pdf" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Poster 1</a>, <a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/images/stories/pages/standup250/standup250-FlagPoster.pdf" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Poster 2</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SHARE</strong>: Please spread the word on social media using the hashtag #StandUp250. Sea Shepherd – and the pilot whales – thank you!</div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 25px; padding: 12px 10px 0px; width: 536px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CALL TO ACTION</strong></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Write a letter to Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.seashepherd.org//standup250/letter" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Click here</a> for template email</div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: faricy-new, faricy-new-1, faricy-new-2, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chicago, IL: <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="816de5aa-a320-405a-bacd-31c4474c4cdf" id="d3f645f6-9d2b-4868-a0c6-a22353eff9c3">Friday August</gs> 14 - 11am-2pm</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Consulate General of Denmark<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />875 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1437533966575623/" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1437533966575623/</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Denver, CO: Friday 14 August - 11am - 2pm</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Consulate General Of Denmark<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />5353 W Dartmouth Ave Ste 508, Denver, CO 80227<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Facebook event page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/535168893306656/" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/535168893306656/</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Los Angeles, CA: Friday 14 August - 11am-1pm</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Royal Danish Consulate<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />5849 Uplander Way, Culver City, California 90230<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Facebook event page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1700270046852750/" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1700270046852750/</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York City, CA: Friday 14 August - 4.30pm-6.30pm</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Consulate General of Denmark<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />885 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10017<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Facebook event page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/761953847246477/" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/761953847246477/</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Portland, OR: Friday<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="060c4a70-85ae-405e-af94-2ec37b9b288a" id="b00ae721-cc78-4d40-a0ec-3d80bbfd4726"> August</gs> 14th – 11am-1pm.</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Royal Danish Consulate<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />1600 Pioneer Tower, 888 SW Fifth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204-2099<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Facebook event page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/938780622830048/" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/938780622830048/</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fort Lauderdale, FL: Friday 14 August - 11am-2pm</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Royal Danish Consulate<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />213 E. 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The New York City chapter was formed in May 2010 and has since created an extensive outreach and fundraising program that is one of Sea Shepherd USA’s most active. Averaging between 20 and 30 days of events each year, the NYC chapter hosts documentary screenings, tables at events such as festivals and rock concerts, and organizes beach <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f5913ce2-74fc-4679-81b2-a3afbf37d527" id="55be4241-721d-4176-ac44-8607d3a61450">clean-ups</gs>, bake sales, and major fundraisers. Some chapter highlights have included our “Light Up the Night with Captain Paul Watson” fundraiser in 2012 and our 2013 “Waves of Change” benefit art show. Each August, we host our annual “S'more Protection for the Oceans” fundraiser, which features a social gathering and <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="aff374a1-d18a-4f04-9552-bf8f9a950887" id="e5a8747c-b506-4ab5-bd26-2fa56aeec7c9">raffle</gs> with dozens of donated prizes —and yes, we make and serve vegan <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="aff374a1-d18a-4f04-9552-bf8f9a950887" id="71896972-6ef1-4a74-8f14-07b0cfb52077">s'mores</gs>.</div>
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Each of our volunteers brings a unique perspective and skill set to the chapter, but we all share a common desire to use our knowledge to protect the oceans and to meet new people who share our collective passion and who will help our chapter grow. Several NYC chapter volunteers have also participated in our dolphin defense campaign in Taiji, Japan, <a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Operation Infinite Patience</em> as Cove Guardians</a> since the 2011 campaign (it began in 2010) and in the <a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/dam-guardians/" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Dam Guardians</a> sea lion defense campaign on the Columbia River in 2013.</div>
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If you would like to get involved, please contact us at nyc@seashepherd.org!</div>
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Previous Events</h3>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=963&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f12%2f2015" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 12, 2015 - Riis Park Beach Bazaar Beach Clean Up</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/riis-park-beach-bazaar-promo-704.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 5, 2015 - Riis Park Beach Bazaar Promo</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/the-seed-experience-expo-conference-687.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 20 - 21, 2015 - The Seed Experience Expo & Conference</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=937&cerid=0&cdt=5%2f31%2f2015" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 7, 2015 - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Beach Clean Up at Coney Island</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=920&cerid=0&cdt=5%2f3%2f2015" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 3, 2015 - Sea Shepherd and Xavier Rudd</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=919&cerid=0&cdt=5%2f2%2f2015" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 2, 2015 - Sea Shepherd and Xavier Rudd</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=817&cerid=0&cdt=3%2f27%2f2015" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 27 - 29, 2015 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at Beneath the Sea Scuba Dive Show</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-screening-of-eco-pirate-the-story-of-paul-watson-with-captain-paul-watson-qa-611.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 21, 2015 - Sea Shepherd NYC Screening of Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson, with Captain Paul Watson Q&A</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-table-at-nyc-vegetarian-food-festival-531.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 14 - 15, 2015 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at NYC Vegetarian Food Festival</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-at-kate-pierson-concert-583.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 25, 2015 - Sea Shepherd NYC at Kate Pierson concert</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=840&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f13%2f2015" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 13, 2015 - World Love for Dolphins Day</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/whalentines-day-bake-sale-554.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 8, 2015 - Whalentine's Day Bake Sale</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-table-at-anti-flag-concert-559.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 5, 2015 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at Anti-Flag concert</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=824&cerid=0&cdt=12%2f6%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">December 6, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC table at Vegan Shop Up at Pine Box Rock Shop</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=770&cerid=0&cdt=11%2f9%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">November 9, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Beach Clean Up at Rockaway Beach</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=768&cerid=0&cdt=10%2f19%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 19, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Beach Clean Up at Coney Island</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=767&cerid=0&cdt=8%2f23%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 23, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Beach Clean Up at Coney Island</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=769&cerid=0&cdt=9%2f6%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 22, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Beach Clean Up at Rockaway Beach</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-table-at-propaghandi-concert-256.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 17, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at Propaghandi concert</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/smore-protection-for-the-oceans-405.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 11, 2014 - S'more Protection for the Oceans</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-table-at-the-seed-a-vegan-experience-246.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 9 - 10, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at The Seed: A Vegan Experience</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=728&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f21%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 21, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at Michael Franti & Spearhead concert</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=720&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f13%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 13, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Beach Clean Up at Rockaway Beach</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=704&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f2%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 2, 2014 - Cove Guardian Talk at NYC Vegan Meetup</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=701&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f1%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 1, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Table at Boston Concert</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/from-cove-to-captivity-a-sea-shepherd-conservation-society-photo-exhibit-245.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 28, 2014 - From Cove to Captivity: A Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Photo Exhibit</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/john-butler-trio-concert-449.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 17, 2014 - John Butler Trio Concert</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-nyc-beach-clean-up-at-coney-island-222.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 1, 2014 - Sea Shepherd NYC Beach Clean Up at Coney Island</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/beneath-the-sea-scuba-dive-show-157.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 28 - 30, 2014 - Beneath the Sea Scuba Dive Show</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/blackfish-screening-at-hunter-college-201.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 26, 2014 - BLACKFISH screening at Hunter College</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/sea-shepherd-table-at-the-nyc-vegetarian-food-festival-143.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 1 - 2, 2014 - Sea Shepherd table at the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=648&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f16%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 16, 2014 - Whalentines Day Bake Sale</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=650&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f4%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 4, 2014 - John Butler Trio Concert</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=649&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f3%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 3, 2014 - John Butler Trio Concert</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=633&cerid=0&cdt=1%2f30%2f2014" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">January 30, 2014 - Vegan Drinks, Benefitting Sea Shepherd Conservation Society</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/on-shore-volunteer-training-155.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">December 11, 2013 - On-Shore Volunteer Training</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/netcommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=607&cerid=0&cdt=10%2f27%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 27, 2013 - Sea Shepherd beach clean up at Coney Island</a></div>
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<a href="https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=606&cerid=0&cdt=9%2f29%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">September 29, 2013 - Sea Shepherd beach clean up at Coney Island</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/smore-protection-for-the-oceans-108.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 12, 2013 - S'more Protection for the Oceans</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=585&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f13%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 13, 2013 - Sea Shepherd table at Long Island Animal Rights and Vegfest</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=572&cerid=0&cdt=6%2f27%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 27, 2013 - Waves of Change</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/the-seed-a-vegan-experience-may-18-19-2013-96.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 18 - 19, 2013 - The Seed: A Vegan Experience, May 18-19, 2013</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=564&cerid=0&cdt=5%2f8%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 8, 2013 - On-Shore Volunteer Training</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/meet-and-greet-with-captain-alex-cornelissen-95.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 1, 2013 - Meet and Greet with Captain Alex Cornelissen</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=546&cerid=0&cdt=3%2f22%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 22, 2013 - Beneath the Sea Scuba Dive Show</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=542&cerid=0&cdt=3%2f2%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 2, 2013 - Sea Shepherd table at the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/events/at-the-edge-of-the-world-65.html" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 19, 2013 - At the Edge of the World</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/sslpage.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=541&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f18%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 18, 2013 - Gojira Concert</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=536&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f17%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 17, 2013 - Whalentines Day Bake Sale: A Benefit for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=2%2f2%2f2013&ceid=535&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 2, 2013 - Sea Shepherd at the Wildlife Film Festival</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=1%2f28%2f2013&ceid=532&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">January 28, 2013 - Dinner with Sea Shepherd at Blossom Chelsea</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=529&cerid=0&cdt=1%2f23%2f2013" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">January 23, 2013 - On-Shore Volunteer Training</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=504&cerid=0&cdt=10%2f31%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 31, 2012 - Smashing Pumpkins Concert</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=512&cerid=0&cdt=10%2f28%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 28, 2012 - Xavier Rudd "Spirit Bird" 2012 Tour</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=10%2f11%2f2012&ceid=477&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 11 - 14, 2012 - New York Comic Con</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=10%2f4%2f2012&ceid=495&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 4, 2012 - Propagandhi Tour</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=494&cerid=0&cdt=10%2f3%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 3, 2012 - Propagandhi Tour</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=488&cerid=0&cdt=8%2f24%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 24, 2012 - "I'm Sorry: How an Apologist Became an Activist" Play</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=8%2f13%2f2012&ceid=472&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 13, 2012 - S'more Protection for the Oceans</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=7%2f31%2f2012&ceid=471&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 31, 2012 - On-Shore Volunteer Training</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&cdt=6%2f30%2f2012&ceid=460&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 30, 2012 - Sharkwater Film Screening</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=384&cerid=0&cdt=6%2f23%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 23, 2012 - Cupcakefest 2012</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=455&cerid=0&cdt=6%2f16%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 16 - 17, 2012 - The Seed: A Vegan Experience</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=434&cerid=0&cdt=5%2f23%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 23, 2012 - Save Our Skipper</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=5%2f4%2f2012&ceid=375&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">May 4, 2012 - Light Up the Night with Paul Watson</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=354&cerid=0&cdt=3%2f23%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 23 - 25, 2012 - Beneath the Sea</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=331&cerid=0&cdt=3%2f3%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 3 - 4, 2012 - NYC VegFest</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=333&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f12%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 12, 2012 - Whalentines Day Bake Sale</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=341&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f4%2f2012" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 4, 2012 - Candlelight Vigil for Erwin</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&ceid=323&cerid=0&cdt=12%2f11%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">December 11, 2011 - NYC Green Holiday Festival</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&cdt=11%2f13%2f2011&ceid=314&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">November 13, 2011 - Sea Shepherd New York City On-Shore Crew Training</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&ceid=278&cerid=0&cdt=8%2f22%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 22, 2011 - S'more Protection for the Oceans 2011</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=267&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f27%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 27 - 28, 2011 - John Butler Trio Concert</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&ceid=259&cerid=0&cdt=7%2f3%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">July 3, 2011 - Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary July Jamboree</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=248&cerid=0&cdt=6%2f25%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 25 - 26, 2011 - Anti-Fur Society Conference</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=6%2f3%2f2011&ceid=247&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">June 3, 2011 - Sea Shepherd Party for Whale Wars Season 4 Premiere</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&ceid=205&cerid=0&cdt=3%2f25%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 25 - 27, 2011 - Beneath the Sea</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&ceid=196&cerid=0&cdt=2%2f24%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">February 24, 2011 - Sea Shepherd NYC VSO Celebration</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&ceid=184&cerid=0&cdt=1%2f23%2f2011" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">January 23, 2011 - Winter Wonderland Bake Sale</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&cid=1&cdt=10%2f3%2f2010&ceid=157&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">October 3, 2010 - Monteclair Vegan Bake Sale to benefit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&ceid=143&cerid=0&cdt=8%2f9%2f2010" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">August 9, 2010 - S'more Protection for the Oceans</a></div>
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<a href="http://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=203&srcid=183&cid=1&cdt=4%2f26%2f2010&ceid=127&cerid=0" style="color: #2881a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">April 26 - 30, 2010 - Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin in New York</a></div>
spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-40080006391609402682015-07-31T16:41:00.000-04:002015-09-04T02:17:15.620-04:00Long Island's First Vegan Restaurant Opens TodayCongratulations, Jay! We LOVE your food, and I mean all of it! You're officially our favorite chef on Long Island!<br /><br /><a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6859&catId=1">Long Island's First Vegan Restaurant Opens Today</a><br />
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3 Brothers Vegan Cafe features pizza with <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="18a34442-4771-499b-b288-a8d825d497f1" id="c803b71d-ad51-4dc5-81cd-1314067525ee">housemade</gs> vegan cheese.</div>
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<a href="http://www.3brothersvegancafe.com/" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">3 Brothers Vegan Cafe</a>, the first all-vegan restaurant in Long Island, NY, opens today. The eatery’s origins stem from 2009, when vegan chef Jay Astafa introduced a plant-based menu at his <a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=5574&catId=8" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">father’s</a><a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=5574&catId=8" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> pizzeria</a>. The menu was so popular that the traditional menu soon became 70 percent vegan. The new location features a 100-percent <a href="http://vegnews.com/web/uploads/asset/5883/file/VegNews.3BrothersMenu.pdf" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">vegan menu</a> including mozzarella sticks, kale Caesar salad, seitan <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7f761ecc-76c0-49c6-8960-cb73e39df9c1" id="a1a0ea90-04ad-47df-aada-a257c32875f6">picatta</gs>, a bacon cheeseburger, and myriad innovative pizzas such as a BBQ Pulled Jackfruit and the veggie-heavy Verdure. Another interesting element to the eatery is its in-house cheese program: Chef Astafa makes fresh cashew milk mozzarella, cashew milk cheddar, cashew-tofu ricotta, macadamia feta, cashew <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8126d388-0a6e-4b82-be95-b1e791e7323b" id="63b6c91d-ed17-448e-af9f-635bf555b7d8">parmesan</gs>, and cashew <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8126d388-0a6e-4b82-be95-b1e791e7323b" id="3372f1d0-dc10-4f1c-a283-91e276eb3252">bleu</gs> cheeses for the whole menu—and nut-free vegan cheeses are also available. From this all-vegan pizzeria (open for dinner only) to vegan options at chains such as <a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6713&catId=1" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MOD Pizza</a> and <a href="http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=6375&catId=8" style="color: #b00269; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Domino’s in Israel</a>, dairy-free slices are taking over the world.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Every year, fifty thousand greyhound dogs called Galgos are tortured and killed in Spain.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Subjected to horrific pain, starved, burned with fire and acid, buried or skinned alive, dragged to death behind automobiles, hung from trees with just the tips of their paws touching the ground in what the Galgueros (hunters) call the piano dance because they are forced to struggle as they</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> are slowly hung.<br /><br />All of this cruelty and death is exempted from Spanish and European law protecting domestic animals because the deliberate torture and killing of Galgos is considered to be a part of Spanish culture and enshrined in their traditions just like bull-fighting.<br />The Galgos are greyhounds and in Spain they are used for hunting and for racing.<br /><br />Around the world these dogs have been abused for hunting and racing but in Spain there is a bizarrely cruel difference. You see in Spain if the dogs do not perform up to the expectations of their owners, they are intentionally tortured and killed, usually by hanging. This is done to punish and shame the dogs for not living up to the expectations of their owners.<br /><br />My wife Yana is deeply saddened by the suffering of these gentle dogs, so much so that she has decided to take action to oppose it by becoming an ambassador for Galgos Ethique Europe.<br /><br />Galgos Ethique Europe was set up to focus attention on this barbarically inhumane treatment of these gentle dogs and for the purpose of rescuing them and finding them homes.<br /><br />Yana wants to bring this cruelty to the attention of the world and especially to the attention of the European Union Parliament with a demand that European law prohibit the cultural persecution of these gentle dogs.<br /><br /><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/STATUT_DANIMAL_DE_COMPAGNIE_POUR_LES_LEVRIERS_EN_EUROPE/?launch" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" wotsearchprocessed="true">https://secure.avaaz.org/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>fr/petition/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>STATUT_DANIMAL_DE_COMPAGNIE<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>_POUR_LES_LEVRIERS_EN_EURO<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>PE/?launch</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Between 50,000 and 60,000 galgos are tortured and killed every year in Spain without any pity and with impunity by Spanish hunters (Galgueros). It happens here, in Europe because of the European Parliament that does not want to here about this kind of a "small problem". Please let's spread information about this problem and to finger the Spanish government and the European parliament, to show that we also have power to change, not only them. With one click of your key bo</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">ard you can change the sad fate of these incredible gentle, intelligent and unjustly abused dogs. <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/savethegalgos?source=feed_text&story_id=936645386369368" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" wotsearchprocessed="true"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #6d84b4; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">SAVETHEGALGOS</span></a></span></div>
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A film by Dharma Voices for Animals<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqTk44GhjKI&feature=youtu.be" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #864ae6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Watch now</a></div>
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Featuring interviews with world-renowned monastics and lay teachers including Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jetsuma (Ven. Master) Tenzin Palmo, Ven. Bhante Gunaratana (Bhante G), Christopher Titmuss, Ven. Geshe Phelgye, teachers from Spirit Rock Meditation Center and many others.</div>
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In addition to watching the film on YouTube, it can be downloaded <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmt2maacg479opy/ANIMALS%20AND%20THE%20BUDDHA%20%28master%20fixed%29.mov?dl=0" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #864ae6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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If you are interested in screening the film for your sangha or local community, please see our <a href="http://dharmavoicesforanimals.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Information-sheet-screening-film.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #864ae6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">information sheet.</a> If you have any questions, please contact us at <a href="http://mailto:friends@dharmavoicesforanimals.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #864ae6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">friends@dharmavoicesforanimals.org</a>.</div>
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In keeping with Buddhist tradition, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Animals and the Buddha</em> is presented at no charge. If you are able to help support Dharma Voices for Animals and the important work we do on behalf of animals, your <a href="http://dharmavoicesforanimals.org/donations/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #864ae6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Donate">donation</a> is greatly appreciated. Donations are tax-deductible</div>
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Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA) is an organization of those committed both to practicing the teachings of the Buddha (the Dharma) and to speaking out when animal suffering is supported by the actions of those in Dharma communities and by the policies of Dharma centers. We want to be the voice of the animals who cannot speak our language and are unable to ask, “Why are you paying people to do this to me?” or “Why are you supporting my suffering?” We want to support those who are willing to speak out about the harm we cause other sentient beings when we eat them, use their body parts as clothing and in other ways, or use household and personal hygiene products that are tested on animals. While DVA recognizes the challenges of living in a complex, modern society, we wish to promote the choices that provide the greatest reduction of animal suffering. It is our intention to be inclusive in honoring the different views of those who sincerely intend to minimize the suffering of animals.</div>
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spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-86726667202460158722014-10-02T16:49:00.000-04:002014-10-16T16:49:46.172-04:00The Vegan Mom Project | Vegan.com<header class="article-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><h1 class="entry-title single-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 39px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 4px;">
The Vegan Mom Project</h1>
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<time class="updated" datetime="2014-09-25" pubdate="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">September 25, 2014</time></div>
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We’re not going to sugarcoat it; raising a child with a strong sense of compassion and a foundation of healthy foods is tough in a world where kids are encouraged to munch on Cheetos and taught that loving certain animals (dogs and cats) and eating others (pigs and chickens) is perfectly okay. A world where few doctors understand the nuances of nutrition, and many teachers, daycare professionals, and friends think it’s “just fine” to feed kids a little bit of cheese behind moms back.</div>
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In an effort to support all the vegan moms out there, Vegan.com has started The Vegan Mom Project. We have turned to vegan moms for their own bits of wisdom, experiences, inspiration, funny stories, and even some frustrations that you may relate to. You are not alone. We hope you enjoy reading these tidbits from fellow vegan moms!</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Being a vegan mama means I get to make the most colorful meals for my childrens lunch box. I love packing their lunch. It is a rainbow of fun and it is usually simple whole foods. Green Edamame, red raspberries, yellow apple sauce, black beans, purple smoothie, a kiwi. I think being a vegan mama is just being a mama with the benefits of a nutritious and delicious meal and with the added bonus of teaching compassion as a way of life.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Jennifer Jones Horton, <a href="http://www.sanctuarybistro.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sanctuary Bistro</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Truthfully, I never wanted children. I wanted to dedicate my life, every minute of it, to helping animals. Well, shizzle happens and in the middle of veterinary school, I done got myself pregnant. How in the heck could I spay and neuter every animal in the world while teaching my newborn child physics and Cantonese? I couldn’t and I’m not. Instead, I’m helping more animals than I ever imagined by working for an animal rights organization and raising a vegan child.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">But, there’s a catch. I’m only 50% of a co-parenting package. He’s got a pop who eats innocent critters and there ain’t a damn thing I can do about it. Trust me, I’ve tried. My little rascal spends a few days a week with his dad, who admits that once in a while he gives him meat. My heart shattered when I learned of this. His dad knows my feelings and we have a very civil relationship, but knowing that my precious and pure child (ha!) has ingested the flesh of beautiful mother cow, destroys a part of me. But again, there ain’t a damn thing I can do about it. All I can do is live by example and teach him to have empathy for all animals so that when he must decide between the Big Mac and a vegan alternative, he chooses Field Roast. Passing the compassion torch off to the next generation is the way this marathon will be won and to do that, you have to let go. Okay, just a little bit though.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">-Tiffany Rose, <a href="http://crueltyfreemoms.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cruelty-Free Moms</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Being a vegan mom is pretty amazing and rewarding. I take pride in knowing that I am raising a compassionate and kind little girl. I will never have to have that uncomfortable talk, trying to explain that her “meat” comes from the animals she adores. I’d like to say that raising a vegan child means that they are automatically ingrained to love vegetables; however that is not always the case. Most of my time is spent chasing around a pasta-loving toddler with a fork full of green beans. That, and changing the words “egg” and “meat” to “tofu” and “tofurky” while reading her stories.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Jen Regan, <a href="http://www.poisonberrybakery.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Poison Berry Bakery</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“When Jack first went to preschool, I met with his teacher to see what I could do to make sure that he got vegan snacks every day. A month or so into the school year, I asked Jack’s teacher if he seemed bothered by having something different from the other children, and she said that it was quite the opposite—they all wanted what he was having!</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Like all parents, I want Jack to follow the Golden Rule, and teaching him why we eat veggie burgers instead of hamburgers is a big part of teaching him to have compassion for others. I’m glad that he is learning to respect all life, and it brings me even more joy to know that he is as proud of his efforts to help animals as I am.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Tracy Reiman, Executive Vice President at <a href="http://www.peta.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PETA</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I never made “baby” food, I just gave Olivia what we were eating. I started out with quinoa for its powerhouse of nutrition, lentils for their high iron content and potent hit of protein, and finely chopped and steamed kale for its all-around goodness. To this day, Olivia’s “comfort food” is that trio with tamari and nutritional yeast!</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">My advice is to give your babies real food, not dumbed-down versions of food. Their palates develop the most between ages one and two and by presenting an array of tastes, they’re less likely to go through a picky eater phase. Expose them to ethnic foods to allow the flavors to awaken their tastebuds and to establish that variety is normal. Don’t give up after just one or two offerings. Olivia wasn’t keen on avocado (the first food we gave her at seven months) for quite some time. We kept serving it to her and now at the tail end of her 7th year, she jumps at any opportunity to eat an entire avocado each day.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I love that by being a vegan mom, I share the gifts of compassion, deliciousness, optimum health, and disease prevention with every meal.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Allison Rivers Samson, <a href="http://allisonsgourmet.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Allison’s Gourmet</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Vegan parenting does have its challenges, but so far I’ve found it to be much easier than so many people think. They have this crazy idea that you have to have a degree in nutrition or something. Yes, we have to do a little more research initially and think a little more about certain nutrients but so far we’ve found great solutions for everything.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We get some raised eyebrows from people who don’t understand our unconventional choices, but at the end of the day, it’s gratifying to see my toddler snacking on walnut-date balls, kale chips or goji berries and sipping green juice next to kids in the playground who are crunching goldfish crackers and drinking apple juice. Which is not to say my kid doesn’t love crackers and apple juice, but healthy superfoods are his “normal.” </em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">And to see his natural love for animals come through—well, it just doesn’t get better than that. </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What a gift to give him a healthy foundation, a more compassionate worldview, and, when he’s older, the knowledge that since before he was born he’s been part of a movement that’s making the world a better place for all its inhabitants.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Marisa Miller Wolfson, <a href="http://www.getvegucated.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vegucated</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“My two-year-old Dylan has been a vegan since conception, and there was no doubt in my mind that I was going to raise him vegan. People often ask me what I feed my son, and the answer is, he eats the same food that I do! He especially loves peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, veggies and hummus, spaghetti, vegan hot dogs with BBQ baked beans, potatoes in all forms, every fruit you can think of (we drink lots of smoothies), Lara bars, and oatmeal.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I’m expecting another baby this winter, and aside from increasing my protein intake, I’m taking vegan prenatal <a href="http://www.vegan.com/vitamins" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">vitamins</a> that contain <a href="http://www.vegan.com/iron" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">iron</a> and folic acid [and <a href="http://www.vegan.com/b12" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">B12</a>]… basically, I’m following the same nutritional recommendations as non-vegan mommas-to-be. It’s really not that different.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I know that by raising vegan children, I’m providing them with optimal, nutritionally dense plant-based foods that are going to encourage healthy growth and the development. I also have peace of mind that their foods are free of hormones, chemicals, and preservatives, and that no living being has to suffer for any of their meals.”</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Sunny Subramanian, <a href="http://www.veganbeautyreview.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vegan Beauty Review</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It’s not the vegan part of parenting that’s hard, it’s the parenting part! Kids truly love the food they know, get them started early on real, nourishing, compassionate plant foods.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Dreena Burton, <a href="http://plantpoweredkitchen.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Plant Powered Kitchen</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I remember when my son was two, I read to him from The Lorax for the first time and he burst out crying at the end. My husband turned to me and said, ‘We aren’t going to have any trouble with him wanting to be vegan,” which seemed to be the most common question we were asked.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">At 12 now, the hardest thing for our son has never been not having the same snacks as his friends or not being able to eat <a href="http://www.vegan.com/tips/vegan-pizza-101/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">pizza</a> at school. It’s been living in a world where something that is so common sense and so intuitive to him – this understanding that animals are not ours to use – is treated like a silly whim or attempt to get attention. The idea that he not only sees his peers but also adults come up with convoluted, illogical excuses for eating animals kind of embarrasses me for our species. On the bright side, though, all this does is deepen his convictions.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Raising a child as a vegan is not only kinder to the animals and the planet but these children also are being raised as independent, questioning, resourceful, heart-centered individuals and this is a huge advantage for them and a gift for our planet.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Marla Rose, <a href="http://veganstreet.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vegan Street</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Being a vegan mom has had its ups and downs (more ups). I was amazed at how supportive my OB was of my vegan lifestyle. The same goes for my daughter’s pediatrician. However it is a struggle for some family members to come to terms with Lena being raised vegan. I’m looking forward to watching Lena grow up understanding how to be compassionate to all living beings and demonstrating how she is thriving off our lifestyle.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s been extremely helpful connecting with other vegan moms and learning about their experiences raising vegan kids, especially as a first time mom. I feel that I can talk to these moms without being judged. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and I’m so thankful for these vegan families in my community.”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Melissa Heffelfinger, Cleveland, Ohio</strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“My 11-year-old daughter Alethea has been vegan since birth (I’ve been vegan since 1991). When I was a child, my health problems were numerous. I speak about them at length in my books and talks, but suffice it to say that by the time I was my daughter’s age, I had been sick so many times that I’d become immune to every antiobiotic on the market. What’s so wonderful is that my daughter has had zero health issues and is freakishly strong – and it’s not even a struggle! </em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alethea is vegan by her own choice. I have given her the basic knowledge of why it’s a compassionate, healthy lifestyle, but have always encouraged her to think for herself and make her own decisions. As such, she truly chooses it, and completely loves it. She never wishes she could eat non-vegan food, because she feels like every possible deliciousness in the world is contained in the realm of plant-based foods—and she’s right! Not feeling deprived, and having delish foods on hand for yourself and your kiddos, is key to sticking with this way of life and loving it!”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Tess Challis, <a href="http://www.radianthealth-innerwealth.com/index.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">Radiant Health-Inner Wealth</a> and <a href="http://getwaisted.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">Get Waisted</a></strong></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household – strictly kosher. I never once felt restricted by my dietary limitations as a child, as it was all I knew. I was being raised according to my family’s ethics. And that is how my husband and I are raising our boys – our ethics are based in the tenants of veganism. To promote kindness over cravings (though there is no craving veganism can’t meet!) is tantamount to religion to our family. </em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We know healthy, happy, conscious, and enlightened families worldwide are choosing plant-based diets for their kids—and we are proud to be arm-in-arm in that mission toward a more sustainable, humane, and compassionate world. </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are the lucky ones, the path has been paved by vegan parents twenty years before us who had to sprout their own nut milks—we have vegan cheese that melts, decadent cashew based ice creams, unchicken nuggets available at nearly any supermarket in the country. I always say, there’s a wealth of options and a cornucopia in veganism—not limitation.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">My boys know to ask “is it vegan?” but also exactly where cheese comes from, and why it’s cruel and why we don’t eat it. How many 3 year olds know the truth about factory farms? These are wise, strong, activist little people we are all raising in this movement—and it will only grow stronger with these animal-loving, green little sprouts at the helm!”</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Chloé Jo Davis, <a href="http://www.girliegirlarmy.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77bf15; text-decoration: none;">Girlie Girl Army</a></strong></div>
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It’s 8:30 on a Friday morning at the Van Nuys airport, in Los Angeles, as a Gulfstream IV is preparing to take off for the two-hour flight to Denver. The passenger manifest sounds like the setup to a joke, or a road movie:</div>
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There’s Tyson, a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e8f216d5-9573-4bb8-ad4a-edd5f1a4bc08" id="9a049d0f-e6e6-477f-8306-82af8d2bccf5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="50ab7697-105a-4461-a823-ca5b6f260818" id="71e3f4ba-265e-4bde-95e6-2c9a0713441e">tattooed dog</span></span> trainer, seated on a couch with his pit bull, with whom he communicates using nonsense syllables and telepathy. On one side of a polished wood table that holds a fresh-fruit basket and a backgammon board is the actress Jennifer Tilly, glamorous even in torn jeans and a pair of Converse All-Stars. The tousled-haired guy in the window seat beside her, wearing a Bruce Lee T-shirt and drawstring pajama bottoms, is her boyfriend, World Series of Poker champion Phil Laak. In the seat facing mine, looking lovely in a platinum pixie-style haircut, sits Pamela Anderson, wearing no makeup, somehow managing to be dressed up and dressed down at the same time in a short but otherwise modest black dress and ankle boots with four-inch heels. She looks up from a phone—its pink case has the words “Mrs. Salomon” written in sparkly letters on it—and grins.</div>
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We are all headed to the 720-acre Wild Animal Sanctuary, just outside of Denver, where we’re hoping to catch a glimpse of six newly born <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ff007be7-0d53-454a-8f88-08ee324724be" id="271040a4-06ef-4fae-9e0b-1104b630b85c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="aa4d0830-a5f5-4fe0-bbab-520efe30bf72" id="690f9749-1b98-4be9-87fa-8571a9033371">bear</span></span> cubs. The two new mothers were among 17 bears, fated to live their lives pacing back and forth in the concrete holes of a grim roadside bear-pit attraction in rural Georgia, subsisting on white bread and soda thrown to them by tourists, until our host for this trip paid to facilitate their release. We will also pay a visit to Marley, another rescued female grizzly, who is recovering from the two broken legs inflicted on her as a last-minute parting gift when she was badly beaten by her previous owners. Her surgery was also paid for by our host.</div>
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He is Sam Simon, 59-year-old comedy force of nature, co-creator of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em>, animal-rights activist, ardent vegan and philanthropist, art collector, poker champion, and a friend for 30 years. In the field of comedy writing, full to overflowing with the sedentary, the professionally whiny, and the proudly self-involved, Sam Simon stands out as an anomaly. Diagnosed with terminal colon cancer in 2012 and given three to six months to live, he is now focused like a laser, in a race against time, making sure that all that money—hundreds of millions of dollars—made from his years of work on <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em> and other television shows is being channeled directly into the charitable causes he loves.</div>
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Sitting across the table from Tilly and Laak, next to makeup artist Kate Porter, a current girlfriend, is Sam himself, completely bald from the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2ca713ff-8f04-4567-be14-2a05d79a67f0" id="5a4e28b1-91e5-4ea8-8165-cde9be4eceb1"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="94c57912-1e22-4fd1-a289-c91c78661e29" id="79f057e7-736c-4d25-8bcb-f9bc656d5942">chemo but</span></span> looking fit and even radiant in a black hoodie with a rainbow appliqué and white jeans. His most recent <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ba71b554-8b3d-4e04-9b75-759ae9f6c575" id="dd09dd97-0253-42aa-a932-d43f209b6e22"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cda0b460-8f67-4293-ba53-919816dafa37" id="4523a423-8cde-408b-97de-82a79342382e">chemo</span></span> was two days earlier. That means he probably doesn’t feel all that great today. But he seems to have more energy than anyone else on board.</div>
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“I’ve really just gotten to know Sam personally over the last few months, when we started working out together,” Pamela Anderson, also an animal-rights crusader, tells me later. “To be able to be so generous at this time in his life is so inspiring. I feel honored to know him.” Sam has already told me about the exercises he now does, taught to him by a trainer Pam brought over to his house. They allowed him to keep walking after neuropathy hit so hard that he became unable to feel his legs below the knees.</div>
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Jennifer Tilly is Sam’s ex-wife and now one of his best friends. She has accompanied him to all of his <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="38feee0d-b5bd-4510-b8eb-5d9cc3b04df9" id="b00e7e0b-d50a-4b3f-978e-68ced0e230fc"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="57d899bd-d7c0-417c-b833-65dbc3d34e04" id="7b7e53ff-1614-40d4-a862-214731977fbf">chemo</span></span> sessions since the cancer hit, even making sure she got one day a week off to fly to Los Angeles written into her contract while she was performing in a play in New York.</div>
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As the plane taxis down the runway, Sam opens up a briefcase full of medical-marijuana-laced snacks. “Mention I have a vegan pot chef,” he calls to me. He holds up a container of strawberry cannabis lemonade and laughs. Sam punctuates most of his sentences with a distinct laugh. It starts out a big deep rumbling guffaw, which longtime <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simpsons</em> writer and producer George Meyer describes as “startling, like the squawk of a macaw,” except that it keeps on going, longer than you’d expect, “until it fades into a whoosh, like the last squeeze of a Sriracha bottle.” The laugh happens whenever Sam says something he knows is funny, which is often. And also when he says something that is dark and horribly unfunny. Like when he’s talking about an undercover PETA operation that recorded one of the roadside-bear-attraction owners talking about his <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a37d3bef-aa5d-48cc-8a49-a99ec0515b90" id="85ce1b70-301c-4234-8714-070c8ee1ec48"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8564a1be-9c9a-43fe-b605-ef68c30a3023" id="210daf42-127a-4ddf-9657-d749676fe502">bears</span></span>.</div>
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“If they got a cub, they would kill the adult,” Sam tells me. “The cubs make more money—they’re cuter.” Then they’d eat the adult. “They said, ‘There’s nothing tastier than a bear raised on white bread and soda pop.’”</div>
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‘I’ve got sun bears, moon bears, grizzly bears, Syrian bears, brown bears,” Sam tells me as we approach the Wild Animal Sanctuary a few hours later. “I have 11 <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="17d2e190-8dff-4879-b36c-3fbcaee8b713" id="1fa36805-343b-4305-bc71-6cc753079db3"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="497465cf-3aef-4b80-b97c-721ddc8039b6" id="9b7fdab2-2ee5-46ef-a980-e6ba76c46c3f">bears</span></span> in Dallas and 23 in Colorado—but they just had six cubs.” There are also two rescued chimps at a sanctuary in Florida, a racehorse in Virginia, and some 500 chinchillas rescued from a chinchilla ranch in California. If all goes well, an elephant will soon join the roster.</div>
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The last time Sam visited the sanctuary was when the newly rescued bears had just arrived. He insisted on being the one who opened the cage door to welcome one of the 500-pound grizzlies to a life of freedom.</div>
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“Why was I doing shit like that?” he asks me, now slack-jawed as he views the CNN footage of himself, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="936f3b6d-a6e1-4ce6-ab4b-eb4294a65f8c" id="a2424a27-fa96-4bd1-b9ec-06a0b399dc20"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0729ffb5-f0e4-4937-acc0-e38af4904cb2" id="8fe39685-2afb-4192-a091-3e5ec53ac35a">from</span></span> January, standing an inch from the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="936f3b6d-a6e1-4ce6-ab4b-eb4294a65f8c" id="070b5a3c-b201-4c50-8154-927d9a9080a7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0729ffb5-f0e4-4937-acc0-e38af4904cb2" id="2e5cfd36-c4eb-4da7-8720-ac00860b76ef">uncaged</span></span> grizzly bear. “I don’t understand. It’s extremely dangerous. Dying young, you learn that life is precious, and you think, Why the fuck did I almost kill myself?” He laughs.</div>
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Unfortunately, when we arrive at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, the cubs are off in their dens with their mothers, choosing not to make an appearance. None of us, including their benefactor, gets so much as a glimpse of them. We do, however, pay an extended visit to the hospitalized Marley, who doctors say is recovering nicely from her successful antibiotic implants. As she roams around a cage full of bear toys at the sanctuary’s medical facility, her still-crooked front legs and the places where the hair hasn’t yet grown back make her look like an enormous man in a bad bear suit.</div>
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Sam approaches her cage and crouches down so they are eye to eye. He offers her a biscuit, which she gently accepts.</div>
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Dysfunctional Start</h2>
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Sam Simon was born in Los Angeles in 1955 to a beautiful, volatile, and occasionally violent mother who owned an art gallery in Venice Beach called the Functional Art Gallery, which featured “one-of-a-kind artist-designed home items.” Throughout Sam’s childhood, Joan Simon frequently entertained contemporary artists in their Beverly Hills home. “I did know a lot of famous artists growing up,” Sam recalls. “Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Kienholz. Definitely all the California guys, like Chris Burden and Baldessari.”</div>
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Arthur Simon, Sam’s father, played basketball at U.C.L.A. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1dba88c0-2e4f-4779-8f88-31caa2de1cba" id="029b4beb-d9b7-4501-ba84-0d6b314a0783"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4b313a34-979f-4abe-945d-e11ace392a61" id="d0f833ee-09b7-4b07-b51c-740465722d50">until</span></span> he lost a leg in World War II. He ended up owning a factory in Los Angeles that made a women’s line of designer-knockoff clothes called Sun and Sand. The Simon family lived comfortably in a two-level, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71c451ab-6bd7-4945-928a-1c560c2a027c" id="2909f8d7-9552-4555-a0c5-daebe56fd113"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="58d707bb-0028-4411-bb4f-95884a28bf1b" id="4ed1f9b4-cfc7-4ff4-b3ac-7d7f3da79147">midcentury</span></span> home in the kind of celebrity-filled Beverly Hills neighborhood where, when the family dog went missing, “it was returned by my neighbor Elvis Presley in a limousine,” Sam tells me. “This was during a period when he wasn’t such a big deal,” he adds, and was considered “kind of schmaltzy.”</div>
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His parents’ marriage was rocky. “I think drinking fueled a lot of it,” he says. Sam’s relationship with his mother was “tempestuous.” “My mother hit me once for not making a martini dry enough, when I was nine years old,” he recalls. “We used to fight all the time and have extended periods where we didn’t talk.” He shifts into an oversize theatrically whispered aside, “I would have to say there were no winners,” then mutters, “I have cancer. You’re supposed to let go.</div>
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“I have to be very careful about how I phrase this traumatic childhood memory,” Sam tells me, recalling an incident, when he was five, between his mother and a famous neighbor. “I walked in on Groucho Marx and my mother in my parents’ bedroom. They were both on the bed. They were fully clothed. I saw him jump off the bed into my sight line, and then she was sitting up.” Sam starts chuckling. “I don’t know exactly what happened. My mother might have been fighting for her honor.” He laughs again. “Though I think I may have overheard Groucho saying, ‘I can see you in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. Now I can’t see the stove.’ “ He laughs harder.</div>
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By the time Sam was in grade school, he was considered an art prodigy. His carefully crosshatched drawings were so articulate for a child that he became a recurring guest on a local television talk show, where he would stand at a drawing pad and illustrate any portion of a children’s book that the hosts read out loud. Eventually his abilities landed him at a lunch with Walt Disney, who predicted that one day Sam would come to work for his company.</div>
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During his years at Beverly Hills High, Sam wrestled and played offensive tackle and middle guard on the football team. But it was his cartoons for the school paper that won him “Most Humorous” and “Most Talented” in the yearbook. In fact, for his application to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="43829bf3-f65b-4ad3-b0a8-e870b76b0cd5" id="d80fb91c-3d02-4ed1-8016-fbab72dcd915"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2aae48be-fa0b-4d7b-b824-e515745e3298" id="c2b8b8ed-8fa8-449b-849b-ade0d2b7652b">Stanford he</span></span> “just cut out a bunch of my cartoons and sent them in.” But as a freshman, he was kept from entering the Stanford art department. “They said I would take up the room of a student with talent,” Sam says laughing. “And that’s burned in my soul for nigh <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7b2c8562-2048-4475-a8cd-d079277e3c8f" id="ae3919a5-0591-477e-aabc-c6a76f6fb4cb"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8fd57915-8714-4e9a-aacd-d03a86a74aad" id="c5afcb1f-35f1-47f0-bdf5-9c78f5aff2b3">unto</span></span> 44 years. Take that, Professor Richard Diebenkorn!” By his senior year, Sam was selling cartoons to the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner.</div>
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After graduation, in 1977, a friend of Sam’s parents’ showed his drawings to the owners of Filmation, a production house that made “horrible Saturday-morning animation,” and he landed a job drawing storyboards. It soon transitioned into a job writing and designing new characters. But Sam grew restless.</div>
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“I wanted to be successful, but I didn’t see it happening in Saturday-morning cartoons,” he says. “So I wrote an episode of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taxi</em> on spec and they bought it. I got a job. And it happened to be on the best show on television.” He was 25 when he became one of the show-runners of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taxi</em>.</div>
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To Live and Tithe in L.A.</h2>
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After three years on <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Taxi</em> came <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shaping Up</em>, a 1984 sitcom set in a gym that starred Leslie Nielsen, written and produced with Sam’s then writing partner Ken Estin. The show was short-lived—five episodes—but introduced Sam to his first wife, Jennifer Tilly, when she was cast as one of the leads. It was followed by stints as a writer and producer on <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cheers</em> and as a writer and consulting producer on <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s Garry Shandling’s Show</em>. Then, in 1988, came an invitation from James Brooks to help develop a new series based on animated shorts commissioned from Matt Groening for Fox’s <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tracey Ullman Show</em>. When <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em> launched, a year later, it was Sam who chose the writers and ran the writers’ room. He also designed the look of some of the characters. “Mr. Burns—I did,” he tells me, showing me some of his original sketches. “Dr. Hibbert. Chief Wiggum. Eddie, Lou, Bleeding Gums Murphy. All the black people.</div>
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“The No. 1 pleasure by far was how great everybody was,” Sam recalls. “It just doesn’t happen that everyone in the room is so great. So original.”</div>
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But there was oft discussed tension between Sam and Matt Groening. In <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History</em>, Groening calls Sam “brilliantly funny and one of the smartest writers I’ve ever worked with, although unpleasant and mentally unbalanced.”</div>
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“We would get into discussions of theoretical stuff,” says Sam. “I would say, ‘Guys, we’re 13 and out.’ This apparently sounded like surrendering to Matt. If I’d known it upset him I would have explained to him what it meant. I was not confident that the show would be a hit, but I always had the confidence that we could do 13 great episodes that we could always be proud of.” More than 550 episodes later, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em> has gone on to become the longest-running animated show in the history of television.</div>
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“The show tore through the culture like a cyclone,” says George Meyer, who stayed with it until 2005. “But in Sam’s office, where we pitched our stories and re-wrote scripts, the mood stayed remarkably calm and unhurried. We did our work, had some laughs, and went home at six, because that was Sam’s style. He was confident and decisive, an aristocratic autocrat. And unlike many comic geniuses, he seemed to thrive on success.”</div>
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That version of Sam had a reputation for being <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e24723c8-67f6-4dea-8192-8e035b60adbb" id="70aaf015-c7ca-4d1e-b44e-149737b84bf2"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d91f5e2e-fa99-49aa-8c09-35d1fce1746d" id="73560dd8-2039-41fe-81a9-1a2665f32ac0">hilarious but</span></span> also combustible. “Full of passion that bled into anger” is how Sam prefers to explain his own volatility. “I was under a lot of pressure. I just wanted to make everything perfect. People who were trying to help me, I would hear them trying to sabotage me. I’d give some unclear instruction on an <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e31acf31-db55-4f2a-b914-5a45b3070028" id="a403859e-7503-4536-9a4a-2abf77637df3"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="59ec004b-2540-4efd-987f-a92e11d72b2d" id="a72e6175-7e35-4b87-bf3b-7f6442e78778">edit or</span></span> something, and here they had stayed late to try and do it, and I would see it and get pissed off if it wasn’t exactly what I wanted.</div>
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“In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons.</em> But my pulse used to be really low, my blood pressure used to be really low, and I could be screaming at someone on the phone, yelling at the network, I might even be throwing some stuff, but my blood pressure wouldn’t go up. My heartbeat wouldn’t go up. Because I was doing a bit. Shtick. Pretending to be that mad to get my way. Which is not a good way to do it. I don’t suggest it.”</div>
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And so, in the fullness of time, it came to pass that almost 100 episodes of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em> were completed, most with Sam at the helm, thus ushering the show into the lucrative world of international syndication. Then, in 1993, he left. “I can’t honestly say we were getting along as well at that point as when the project started,” he says. (The terms of his departure included a non-disclosure agreement.) “But it worked out for everyone. Everyone should be happy.” His settlement gave him a percentage of everything relating to the show—including the licensing and merchandising—worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the years. “I make tens of millions of dollars a year, which may not sound like a lot, but over 25 years it adds up.” Sam laughs.</div>
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“I’m an atheist, but there’s a thing called tithing that a lot of religions do. Ten percent was the minimum you were supposed to give to charity every year. And I always outdid that,” Sam explains. In 2002 he started the multi-platform Sam Simon Foundation, one arm of which rescues animals from Los Angeles kill shelters and trains some of them to be service dogs for the hearing-impaired and veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Then there’s the mobile veterinary clinic, also in Los Angeles, which offers free surgery and free spay and neuter services. But it’s not just animals; another arm of the foundation funds the Feeding Families program, a vegan food bank that offers free meals to some 400 Los Angeles families a week. “We’re on track to distribute over a half-million pounds of food to more than 65,000 people this year,” its spokesman tells me. Sam is also the largest individual donor to Save the Children, which just announced a new global philanthropic community called the Simon Society.</div>
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The Giver</h2>
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With each succeeding year, the scope of Sam’s philanthropy has grown. By 2012, he had given the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international nonprofit organization involved in marine-wildlife conservation and anti-whaling efforts, a gift of a 184-foot former Japanese whaling vessel, worth millions of dollars. Renamed the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sam Simon</em>, the ship is now handsomely detailed with a black-and-white dazzle-camouflage pattern to make it look like an iceberg from a distance.</div>
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“I was supposed to go to Antarctica with them, but I was diagnosed a week before I was going to leave,” Sam says. “I knew I was in no shape to go on a three-month sail in the furious 40s, or whatever they call it in the frozen Southern Hemisphere.”</div>
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The Sea Shepherd is the kind of hands-on results-oriented charitable organization that has been attracting Sam since he became aware that his personal clock was ticking. “With the Sea Shepherd, you don’t go, ‘What have they done?’ “ he tells me. “They made them stop whaling! They rammed a ship! They <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4431657f-d4b1-4c09-9e9a-f27ead9f6ee5" id="c1a7e9a5-7734-4d4d-99ec-65354acaea85"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="718f413e-de6c-44eb-b7ad-2bbc19091d26" id="c108541a-a86c-401f-86b4-4e5bebe06454">shut</span></span> ‘<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4431657f-d4b1-4c09-9e9a-f27ead9f6ee5" id="8607a2b2-ca8f-491c-97a0-825e9dc964ad"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="718f413e-de6c-44eb-b7ad-2bbc19091d26" id="079a8955-a09e-4ae6-9fc5-27a68aa5d413">em</span></span> down! With PETA you don’t go, ‘What have they done?’ With PETA you get victories every week.”</div>
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Sam began working closely with PETA in 2002. He eventually became such an active donor and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="079c8ef4-d237-4f6e-aee7-64451d455d67" id="10729bab-2a77-41c6-bba8-963374a2cd68"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="69c5732d-765d-4c14-8379-846ba2dad1fb" id="46f19fc3-3652-4756-bfaa-1023cd988737">participant</span></span> in its campaigns that it renamed its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, the Sam Simon Center.</div>
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To Sam, PETA head Ingrid Newkirk is one of the “angels” who have given him hope since he was initially diagnosed. “I’d just had an emergency colostomy; I’d spent a month in the hospital. I wasn’t healing. And I got a call from Ingrid,” he tells me. “And she was very <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4d9af5aa-a4bd-4f4c-8795-dcca555d675f" id="3197732d-a99b-44e9-a0f1-16d0cd549d07"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="69011f20-7396-4815-bbdd-aaec784a0925" id="b85b45bc-2926-450b-955d-e12e1e669230">curt</span></span>. She said, ‘The dedication of your center will be March 1, and you will be there.’ And the reason I say she was being an angel is that was the first time I traveled. She gave me some tough love and showed me that I can still do the things that make life worth living for me. So I go, ‘Well, I can’t fly commercial. It’s not practical. I need to have a nurse. I need to have medical supplies and emergency supplies. I need to have a driver. But I can still go around the world and keep trying to leave it a better place.’ “</div>
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“Since he became sick, it’s like his vision has expanded,” says Jennifer Tilly. “I hate to say this, but little things used to bother him. He was always a very Type A personality. And I think he realizes that a lot of things that maybe would make him crazy, they’re just not important. He’s discovered what’s important in life. Such a difference. A lot of the stuff he <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="874fe4a9-5ea1-4b61-b374-2c596d2dac2b" id="2bc716b1-272c-4176-a193-50c1ff543741"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4990e00d-090e-466a-9cf5-4de204d596a8" id="4d9558e9-e864-4e6e-9a9b-683933ab5ef5">does he</span></span> doesn’t even talk about.”</div>
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Home Is Where the Art Is</h2>
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At the end of a private driveway in Pacific Palisades, just past a Rodin sculpture, is Sam’s spacious, light-filled, contemporary main residence, one of several buildings on the 1.4 acres of his compound. Upon entering the house, the first thing you see, hanging in the entryway, is a specially commissioned 27-foot Dale Chihuly blown-glass chandelier in the colors of the ocean—a brave purchase for a man who had to completely rebuild his house twice, following an earthquake in 1994 and a fire in 2007.</div>
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We are headed for the large home theater, filled with rows of cushioned theater seats that face a floor-to-ceiling screen. Sam refers to this as “the TV Room.” The walls are lined with his extensive collection of <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="12bb46bb-c828-4fbe-a45e-cc24ab2d4768" id="2172e0a0-a764-4387-8180-236ba747fabb">pinup</span> paintings by Vargas and Elvgren of women who have just learned, while innocently pursuing reasonable hobbies like painting or tennis, that their clothes have begun to fly right off of their bodies. In a glass case, on the far side of the room behind the wet bar, sits a beautifully detailed scale model of the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sam Simon</em>.</div>
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“Sam has impeccable taste,” Tilly tells me. “Every time I come over I’m struck by how beautiful everything is.” The living room has a fireplace Sam had made from a piece of petrified wood that dates back to the Jurassic period. And positioned beside it, outside the nearest window, grows a living version of that same kind of tree, imported from Brazil. The walls of the living room showcase paintings by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Hart Benton, Richard Estes, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Eric Fischl, Robert Williams, and Mel Ramos. They are only a part of Sam’s massive art collection, all of which is now destined to be sold at auction—with the profits going to the Sam Simon Foundation—when Sam has left the building.</div>
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These days, during any meeting with Sam, I<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="988782bd-c974-4b4b-b5d9-d29a585af457" id="2760db46-0966-4eb0-a401-e7f7314bd8b5">’ve learned</span> to expect at least one appearance by Nurse Irene. She’s been in residence since Sam was unexpectedly released from a hospice earlier this year. Today she appears with a hypodermic needle and a glass of fresh-squeezed green juice. “I feel like Lyndon Johnson. Avert your eyes,” Sam says as Nurse Irene injects him in the rear.</div>
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“My doctors have never said they can cure me,” he says. “They are extending my life and doing a remarkable job of it. My scans from back when I was diagnosed, my doctor said, ‘If I showed these scans to my colleagues, half of them would say you’re dead, and half would say you’re immobile and can’t get out of bed.’”</div>
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Heading for Sam’s office, in a smaller, contemporary structure, we exit through glass doors that look out onto the infinity pool. “I said I want the weirdest, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bc1e0145-6211-4071-83a2-2f3244692dfe" id="f1376337-9fa8-4598-a9cb-9da31eb1a253">most unusual</span> stuff,” Sam tells me, pointing out decades-old camellias, a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bc1e0145-6211-4071-83a2-2f3244692dfe" id="447f9b4a-04f6-43a3-944e-b7f929750ebe">plumeria</span> that has been grafted together so it blooms in three different colors, and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bc1e0145-6211-4071-83a2-2f3244692dfe" id="7ca5419e-3c63-475f-89ba-0d85df8b2dea">cycads</span> from the Jurassic period. “The oldest plants living on earth,” he adds. There’s also Sam’s guesthouse only a few feet away.</div>
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“You know that house is called the Bailey House. It’s a Case Study House,” Tilly tells me when we talk a few days later, detailing how Sam bought it from a neighbor and then incorporated it into his compound to protect and maintain it. Designed in 1948 by Richard Neutra, it’s a registered Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.</div>
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The Bailey House abuts an enormous, lush green lawn on the far end of which sits one of Robert Indiana’s <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Love</em> sculptures. And just beyond that is a casting of Rodin’s <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Thinker.</em> “I think it’s the only one not in a major museum,” Sam says, forgetting to mention that it’s perhaps the only one that has rubber snakes scattered <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c8d7091e-cc3d-4932-84c6-c3f5a6f890c6" id="9792e628-ff98-4359-b9ee-0e050ac2709f">on</span> its base to protect it. “I used to pay a statue-cleaning company $3,500 four times a year to come out and wax the statues. And there would be <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a674986e-316c-4d85-ada0-6274b8b496af" id="2e4c90e0-61e8-47b5-9a60-162e38d129d9">birdshit</span> on them the next day. So I went to Amazon and bought 13 rubber snakes for eight dollars. You know, as a PETA spokesman I have to talk about how smart birds are, about the fallacy of this whole birdbrain stuff. But I can’t believe they haven’t figured out that those snakes are rubber.”</div>
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As we arrive at <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1feebbcb-541e-4397-a2b4-63ec280e3789" id="1f463451-b455-4f2e-9333-f8329ff21d6a">the smaller</span> building that houses Sam’s office <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1feebbcb-541e-4397-a2b4-63ec280e3789" id="832483f1-2647-4576-921d-e3677fed1481">we’re</span> joined by Sam’s dog, Columbo, a 120-pound, jet-black Cane Corso. Sam adopted Columbo when he came to the attention of the foundation after he and his mother were found starving, locked in a chicken coop owned by a drug dealer.</div>
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“Walking your dog is one of life’s great pleasures,” he says as we head inside. “I don’t get why anyone would want a dog-walker. It’s like paying someone to fuck your wife.”</div>
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‘In many ways I’m consciously crafting my death,” Sam tells me after we sit down at his desk. Behind him are his nine Emmys, stretched out in a straight line with the exception of the one that broke at the ankles during the earthquake. That one <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8a44a8ab-0591-47c7-8388-b4e35734fbdd" id="66390a18-db94-458f-b943-6c183146d3af">leans</span>. There are also other awards, on a separate set of shelves, some of which are for boxing and poker.</div>
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“The liberations of the roadside zoos and circuses,” Sam says, taking a pull on the cigar <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="07633b01-a0e8-45f6-8370-574f35eea20d" id="ce8545c3-555e-4acc-81e5-4f7f58a89c4f">he’s</span> been working on all day, “this I don’t see as philanthropy at all. This is part of my therapy. I’m <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1de3237f-8375-4516-bca4-59483159bc39" id="00d4a4e2-f784-46bf-8f57-30b2787dd297">pacing</span> my life looking forward to these things, and I enjoy them. I enjoy bringing my friends. The arguments against doing them, which you can see on every bulletin board every time I do something like that, I understand completely. It’s not a cost-effective way of doing anything except making me happy for an afternoon. I like to live my life with these goals ahead of me. But it also has to do with alleviating suffering.”</div>
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Among his future plans is funding PETA’s purchase of land in India for the Animal Rahat Sanctuary. There’s also the ongoing saga of Sunder the elephant. Today, according to Sam, is “a crushing day. Do you know who Sunder the elephant is? He is probably the most abused <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="56fa650c-6abb-46ec-9520-cbd30c88fa11" id="f37b5eec-d76b-4926-aabf-4c9b7593e703">elephant</span> in the world.” Sunder, who has been beaten and trapped by <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="56fa650c-6abb-46ec-9520-cbd30c88fa11" id="8fdf0685-c20b-4b8e-95a8-84562b63e39a">spiked</span> chains inside a dark pot shed in India for seven years, remains stuck between brutality and bureaucratic red tape. “There was a chance I was going to get him today. I had these trucks waiting <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="09b85992-b70d-405f-8f80-7c36839b21bd" id="839ef64c-4226-4cee-8904-96b14a78aea2">at</span> the rescue.” No less a figure than Paul McCartney has tried and failed to win Sunder his freedom.</div>
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“People say I’m trying to buy my way into heaven, which I don’t believe in. So that can’t be true,” Sam says. He paid for those atheist billboards that make <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="70569e9c-266e-427e-872e-53fb20e66d13" id="a4f30c08-b32b-4002-8bd0-84f8e9d33bf6">news</span> from time to time. Like the one by the Lincoln Tunnel, in New York, that <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="562778f8-a245-4b1f-8e96-5cfd3f16428f" id="ab4e6a63-3812-463b-89ee-701dc1aa75f9">read</span>, IT’S A MYTH, on a picture of the stars over Bethlehem.</div>
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‘What’s your answer to the question ‘Why did you leave <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em> after only four seasons?’ “ I ask.</div>
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“I wanted to do other stuff,” Sam says. “Anything else but <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em>.” In 1994 he co-created <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The George Carlin Show</em> with Carlin. Then he worked as a consulting producer on The Drew Carey Show. “I directed about 70 of them,” he adds.</div>
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It was during this period that writing, producing, and directing became only one piece of how Sam was spending his professional time. He played and won an assortment of World Series of Poker events, and in another memorable game found himself victorious after a final showdown with Jennifer Tilly, herself a professional poker player. So serious was <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bd9335de-9321-4141-b4c0-42d373af9651" id="84263028-349a-4c93-b538-d59763ef01cd">he</span>, so deeply immersed in becoming a contender as a poker pro, that he hired a former F.B.I. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7dd2a608-532a-4496-b747-713a28053713" id="0a670e91-5688-48c9-a16e-e453367ae177">agent</span> to teach him how to read body language.</div>
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At some point during this period of Sam’s life, I got a phone call from our mutual friend George Meyer. “Did you hear that Sam is managing the heavyweight champion of the world?” To which I replied, “What do you mean? As a joke?”</div>
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Actually, it was more of a professional hobby.</div>
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“When I turned 40, I was looking for a new type of workout, and I went into a boxing gym and loved it. And I was good at it,” Sam says, explaining how he began to fight in amateur contests, in the heavyweight class. “I’ve sparred with champions—they’re going easy on me, don’t get me wrong—and I did it a lot with this particular fighter, Lamon Brewster. And then I heard that he had managerial problems.”</div>
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Sam was part of the team managing “Relentless” Lamon Brewster when he knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in the fifth round to win the W.B.O. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6ff79e53-4338-41a3-9f67-7d144ab3956a" id="3f20d1e2-8aaa-4bad-b38a-697dda50bb4f">heavyweight</span> championship in 2004. In retrospect, Sam thinks that his most important contribution was probably helping to negotiate Brewster’s contract. “I’m the best contract negotiator in the world,” he says. “But I had help. I had lawyers and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f93c7429-ca0b-4d64-9106-60d33e0dc0de" id="5e8a22d1-fdd6-4aab-a666-c9c4b4645c8d">stuff</span>. Relative to the average person Don King negotiates with, I think we were bringing somewhat of an advantage to the situation.” Sam laughs as he recalls a memorable dinner with Don King at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. “So, I call the lawyer in, and we start talking about a contract to join the stable of fighters that Don King promotes and hopefully to get a shot at the heavyweight championship of the world. We negotiated for three and a half hours, running back and forth, making Xerox copies in the lobby. I just remember how thick the thing was; even though it was only about eight or nine pages, there’s so much sweat from people handing it back and forth and all the scribbling and initialing. Anyway, Don King says, ‘O.K., we have a deal. And I’m going to have my <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d9081514-3797-42c4-be29-81b001773332" id="fd54ba1b-8660-4c61-acac-bfc1d2ab8ccb">lawyers</span> type up everything that we’ve discussed. So: Here. Sign the bottom of this blank piece of paper. And let me get all three of your signatures. And then I will have everything else typed in above it.’ ”</div>
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Sam’s Club</h2>
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‘I will possibly be celebrating my final birthday in a few weeks with two ex-wives, an ex-girlfriend, and a current girlfriend,” Sam tells me the next time we talk. In addition to Tilly, Sam’s second wife, Jami Ferrell—the January 1997 “Playmate of the Month”—has R<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ceae776b-2c5c-48a1-93b5-21f329be3f24" id="5c28562e-d1df-4788-9294-e808022bf7b0">.</span>S<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ceae776b-2c5c-48a1-93b5-21f329be3f24" id="495cd207-dd96-4a7e-b3f2-ed6a0deeb30c">.</span>V<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ceae776b-2c5c-48a1-93b5-21f329be3f24" id="5aace1a7-b7a5-4703-a1f3-b2749bbde417">.</span>P.’d. “Probably, my social life is more active than it’s ever been. Astonishingly. And that’s because of my fine choice in women throughout my life. In my time of need they’ve all come back to comfort me.”</div>
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When I marvel at the precarious nature of this guest list and wonder if any feathers will get ruffled, Sam confesses that in fact that did already happen. Party co-organizer and current girlfriend Kate Porter was briefly taken aback. “But I named a grizzly bear after her. Then we were fine,” he explains.</div>
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A few days before, I had gotten word <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="68bcfc88-fd1e-44c8-829d-34934dd26986" id="f0075f32-9b15-4d5b-95f4-ffa4b00a3812">separately</span> from Jennifer Tilly and Ari Solomon, Sam’s animal-activist partner in a weekly Internet radio show, that a surprise party was in the works. Somehow it took only a couple of days for Sam to find out about it.</div>
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The day before his birthday, Sam gets an early present: Sunder the elephant has been freed. There are pictures of Sunder departing in a truck. There are more pictures of him at a sanctuary, near a pond full of other bathing, rescued elephants.</div>
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The celebration of Sam’s 59th birthday is a wonderful thing to behold. Sam is strutting around his backyard in a vintage black brocade dressing gown he told me he had worn to a pajama party at the Playboy Mansion. There are vegan replicas of fish-and-chips, tacos, and sliders. Longtime <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Simpsons</em> director David Silverman is singing and playing tuba with his New Orleans-style jazz band. Sam’s animal-activist friends are there: Captain Paul Watson, from the Sea Shepherd; Ric O’Barry, from the Dolphin Project; Lisa Lange, from PETA; Chris DeRose, from Last Chance for Animals. Celebrity animal activists include Pamela Anderson, Alexandra Paul, Beth Ostrosky, L.A. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4992d10f-f11f-4121-836d-be120890019b" id="c317b6b7-ffef-4875-8103-81c9126a17e2">radio</span> host Mark Thompson, and, of course, Tilly. A phone call from Dan Mathews Sr., a senior vice president of PETA, surprises Sam with a live rendition of “Happy Birthday” from Chrissie Hynde. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Simpsons</em> contingent includes Al Jean and Mike Reiss, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Jay Kogen, John Vitti, David Stern and George Meyer. Old friend Drew Carey is there.</div>
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Ari Solomon, his husband, Mikko Alanne, and Porter and Tilly have made a film for the birthday boy filled with video highlights from all the rescue work Sam has done this past year. There he is in Canada with Pamela Anderson, offering the guys who club baby seals a million dollars if they will just stop. There he is at Talladega <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b80c40ce-03c8-41a5-9603-8373bfd1fda4" id="7eb01495-bd90-4e06-bdaf-8a9adba3b1e0">raceway</span>, in Alabama, with a car he sponsored in order to publicize the documentary <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blackfish</em>, which detailed the treatment of orcas at SeaWorld. There he is in Taiji, Japan, helping shed more light on the killing of dolphins that was first exposed in the movie The Cove. And there he is opening the cage for that grizzly at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, unprotected and an inch away from an unrestrained 500-pound bear.</div>
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After the movie, Sam gets up to say a few words. “I’ve been <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d9c099e3-aa4d-41e0-95d1-dc7b60f9bca4" id="b3185ada-d9f6-4f9d-b6fd-5311f5f7732e">reflective</span>. I’ve been looking back on my life. Don’t ask me why,” he begins, getting a big laugh. “But I’m so glad that I saw my favorite movie of my life just now.</div>
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“The last year, there’ve been some challenges,” he continues, “but I know that part of what kept me going are the extraordinary people in this room. My friends. And some of you have done things for me and come through for me in ways that I would never imagine possible. I can honestly say this last year has been the happiest year of my life because of the people in this room.”</div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook, more than any other media illustrates the level of animosity and hate directed towards an individual or a cause.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I call it the Hateicator and it is a valuable tool for gauging the impact of thoughts and actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have always felt that social media feedback ranging from insults to death threats gives a good measure how much the opposition is being offended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As Captain James Tiberius Kirk once said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“The best defense is a good offense and I'm ready to offend”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the last year the number of hate comments that I have received has literally numbered in the thousands. The most vicious comments have come from the Faroe Islands from pro-whalers and that is understandable considering the impact of Grindstop 2014. The next largest barrage of hate messages came when I criticized the idiotic TV series the Duck Dynasty suggesting that the guys who fake sexual come-ons to ducks should not be <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9910a726-0af6-4873-aa70-3509518d202f" id="1c743a33-3073-4428-97fb-c5bcad477e45"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b6863e7b-08c4-4d6b-998a-24839419d7fb" id="f389b821-f46a-43c6-b56c-f1de47fa47d9">equating</span></span> homosexuality with bestiality. Lots of very un-Christian comments from fake Christians erupted as a result of that. The Duck Dynasty fans were the most amusing and also the dumbest bunch of crazies I’ve ever seen in my history of cataloguing hate comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The third largest feedback of hate messages and threats came from Denmark in response to my article about the killing of the baby giraffe by the Copenhagen Zoo. This was surprising. I was amazed at the number of Danes who jumped to the defense of the slaughter of this innocent animal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Between the Faroes and the Copenhagen Zoo I think I aroused an agitated <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d78ea724-4d98-4cbb-afe6-704fbe593321" id="50aee07f-7978-4686-acc8-d9902c97938d"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="43729135-e40a-44f1-a613-c9af77b645a7" id="5000fd25-c78c-4890-a162-4677ddaf3b50">spurt</span></span> of Danish nationalism, as in my country right or wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I still get a steady stream of hate comments from Newfoundland supporters of baby-seal bashing. I do not get many comments from Japan over Taiji about the slaughter of <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2452c948-7317-4032-b6df-554f358f5104" id="ddeac0fe-c171-4e05-aae8-1325298ae4ae"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1a1e233-14ad-4078-b7eb-2443ef698b8f" id="e85e71be-b94b-440e-8bfa-8f3e59c889f5">dolphins but</span></span> that can be attributed to both the language barrier and the culture of apathy in Japan. Or they could just be much more polite than their equally vicious dolphin killing <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ac96999d-9b2a-498e-9cca-aee96ebb7012" id="7da3d8cf-8016-4ba3-961c-f2685547f08c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="21d13d10-0097-4250-bb1e-2e3afaf33c03" id="254fe5a2-ee0c-4935-a2c4-f3099288f048">bretheran</span></span> in the Faroe Islands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The most flattering reaction has been the number of anti-Sea Shepherd and anti Paul Watson <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4659f83a-a961-4300-b107-e7907d889aaa" id="a967afa1-b399-4af8-9b26-e774152b06cb"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b6ee4e29-9cbf-4892-8796-80eb03654098" id="b54ca325-6ea8-4b96-bbf8-7a94dfbcb259">facebook</span></span> pages. When people take the time and the energy to actually set up websites and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7c8c3adf-a047-4838-aece-e297a7390492" id="762bb5c0-325e-441f-addf-046b74a0ae32"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="827527b4-9043-46d9-802b-f52ce89f2cc2" id="d134f550-8634-47cc-959c-49d58ea6d805">facebook</span></span> sites to attack you, you know you’ve got their attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On my <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="39fd480d-256f-4fe3-8e58-ff00bae84d47" id="3248e4b9-274e-4939-b2f4-090f3a46d995"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="11be440a-625f-4ae8-ab65-4403406f7e59" id="6a850026-1263-47eb-b9be-9fd7915c2608">facebook</span></span> sites, I make a practice of banning people who make insulting or threatening comments. I do so because such people are my indicators of success. I send them to my Facebook dungeon of banned and undesirable persons. This way I can keep track of the numbers. I think I have close to 5,000 on the banned <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5772498d-989c-4366-b274-4881316f16b9" id="99e55435-ae78-48cb-b46f-7875148e8e85"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ed5224b4-2e3d-4a67-9a17-be9f8f51873a" id="6b7f45c4-cc80-4100-a864-4e36dcda98a9">list but</span></span> considering that I have close to 500,000 on my fan page, that is only about 1% so that’s a very healthy ratio. 99% supporters (or people who post nothing) and 1% haters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For anyone contemplating being a social activist you need to accept that haters are going to hate and there is no need to be upset about it. In <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1b51daa2-fa64-4a4a-acad-b5f297b79962" id="250f4272-69ad-40c0-b609-e6c69cf09be9"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="57808cad-eb12-42d7-82d9-317f066496a5" id="4743133e-acfb-445b-bdab-a5e2617ed98b">fact if</span></span> you don’t get any hate messages or threats, you’re probably not doing anything that is making much of an impact. You need this negative feedback to gauge how effective you are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="eb12a40a-e68e-4f95-8591-004599dbec9d" id="1ed32286-b805-4204-87cd-0569759db688"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9b5d2c8d-9eb7-4168-a2d3-968d4a5d963b" id="2f291e98-d94b-425b-a0bd-9ffe2716ea15">Also don’t</span></span> take any of the feedback personally. You don’t know these people. They are simply rising to the defense of that which you are opposing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To be hated by some because you champion life, conservation and environmentalism <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ae0a8048-d8be-4fa4-9445-271c98202933" id="cb909048-a47d-4431-bb8e-33ddad046e11"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8c7dd2f8-f73b-4387-a04a-364bd7d2042d" id="8f35ab66-6568-46d9-8f07-cfacaa4abb70">is</span></span> a compliment to your activism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In other words, you can say to your detractors, “you hate, therefore I am effective.” Although I advise everyone to not bother to respond directly to your critics. They are useful as <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8217f94e-20b5-4c2a-89ef-0916fdd0bff9" id="c8fcb688-1c2d-460b-8253-40da3f08c474"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f3e6dca0-07e4-470f-8cd1-c2cf7dc10a85" id="e4d5a54e-8a71-40c5-965d-0319e8ca087b">indicators but</span></span> it’s a waste of time to engage them, unless you do so out of curiosity, challenge or amusement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And remember, anyone who has done anything or achieved <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b411d70d-0b21-48aa-b442-2dba24ac81a9" id="13b9c243-9d1c-44e0-9224-668be1142887"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9f9390b4-23b6-4341-b4fc-bab15ece53ea" id="123deac0-334c-48ec-af66-8d069b725dc7">anything</span></span> has had their legions of haters. In <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c498707f-a700-4886-826c-ef8d4c1e70eb" id="2323c875-0337-47b0-8aa9-2497a724fe0b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bd9b1617-780e-484f-841a-682ddef6a159" id="0df8ad28-7909-45bf-a94c-db4535bd85a0">fact last</span></span> year when I wrote a tribute to Nelson Mandela, there was a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c498707f-a700-4886-826c-ef8d4c1e70eb" id="ba77c145-62a7-4d62-a802-621fe9602de7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bd9b1617-780e-484f-841a-682ddef6a159" id="dd052733-6ab4-4910-abab-14f214bfb770">hate</span></span> reaction by people who hated Mandela.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And it does not matter how good you are, how successful you are or how noble your cause. There are people who hate the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, Paul McCartney, Ophrah Winfrey and well everyone really. In <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="18e0dae4-d864-4c73-9a9a-2440fbed643d" id="3d392f3e-06a7-4dfb-a4e2-8bcbdaea3ffc"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b5c0128f-4f8b-4d89-b7a1-3db67fa2c2e4" id="4935a094-f312-42f7-9ef9-3aae2080f077">fact every</span></span> single one of us has people who hate us even if we don’t always realize that they do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That is however almost always compensated by the fact that we have far more people who respect or love us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember hate works in the same way that any action brings forth a reaction. No matter what your stance, position or standing is on any subject, there will be people who agree with you, people who disagree with you and people who will hatefully disagree with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As a student of media, having been a communications major in my university days, I have seen the evolution of social media and the accompanying evolution of behavior molded by each new media. Facebook has given rise to the commenting coward. These are people who unleash their vitriolic vileness at every provocation from behind their craven cover of anonymity. They <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ebe18607-1f28-4296-87f6-544764c980d0" id="d8bbc37b-ba7e-4ddb-92c4-e7ce07b82bfd"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2081acc3-3b09-4ebd-a72b-7f5fb86c3b04" id="0c959ebd-cbcc-4d87-bde2-46a6efb8a70a">bark but</span></span> they don’t bite and although barking may be annoying it can easily be rectified by blocking the barkers. And I do love to block the barkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Another interesting phenomena is the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9df0d760-829b-4a87-9aef-7b013ed5e711" id="ffea553d-ebb2-4f37-9952-8c498abaff08"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2b177ae5-1a83-46a6-a121-d6029f9bef81" id="688b9b1f-a4c2-44ef-a6a1-bc61c50ada84">parasitical</span></span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9df0d760-829b-4a87-9aef-7b013ed5e711" id="dca80831-a792-440d-8673-8fd510a0c441"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2b177ae5-1a83-46a6-a121-d6029f9bef81" id="13580539-3bb9-4faa-8c44-e222d33d1f30">facebook</span></span> hater. This is an individual who becomes obsessed with someone and makes it their personal crusade to attack, insult, annoy and irritate you. Anyone who is anybody on social networks has one or more of these strange characters attempting to hound them. Some even resort to posting <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fd743b42-e7e2-4cf7-b459-f321e507f4ec" id="a9500725-ab2d-47c3-a7c5-49f34f261507"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="44dfa4af-1743-481e-9b61-d7ea45580460" id="0107eecf-8658-4603-9d99-2a3ca2366977">You Tube</span></span> rants and it is truly amazing the investment of time and resources they put into obsessing over people they do not know and have never met. In the real world these crazies are called stalkers and more to be pitied than feared. Again an easy solution – block them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ban, delete and block <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5a3efbe2-56eb-4396-973a-40750aab7049" id="5ebe2f57-e91f-40e4-99d0-046278ce53c8"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71869c36-1c98-4139-b19b-50966dc8c27f" id="32b92bd2-167c-4f42-a544-21d941523ac8">are</span></span> the three mechanisms that Facebook provides to deal with vile people and vile comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I do however value and appreciate my haters. They keep me uplifted <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cc29f35b-af40-46a1-bb9c-d15f33593990" id="059f736f-6a1b-4bf0-98f8-5222c0d2300f"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="91e393d4-abf3-4b67-9f79-a63e9a69127b" id="c0ec8989-b1a9-4697-8d3e-ce248fafcaf1">with</span></span> the knowledge that if I am provoking such emotions from <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cc29f35b-af40-46a1-bb9c-d15f33593990" id="63732b89-5d7b-4a4d-b2e8-f75d11159997"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="91e393d4-abf3-4b67-9f79-a63e9a69127b" id="0a489726-cf54-4ebe-ba17-bdaf06016602">them I</span></span> must be making progress in championing a cause they oppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And I keep them all safely tucked away in my little cyber dungeon where once I’ve counted their heads for the benefit of my <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="79d0e1fd-ae5e-442c-abc1-bd6f71a0c7a4" id="661294f8-d838-498a-ae12-98fa21260ceb"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="533c9338-6200-4425-9f33-789a5fa398ec" id="9bc06c62-bfb7-48c2-8faf-8f72b99d17fd">hateicator</span></span>, I need not hear from them ever again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ll leave you all with some quotes about haters:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Behind every successful person lies a vicious pack of haters.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You are not successful when people <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="50b99ec0-befe-4ece-9760-e4dfddbb75e2" id="9c6c928b-952c-4e57-aadc-2a58d15ad31a"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6b4d4593-84e4-4b5a-8f7e-db2b12f0c112" id="4e1ce38e-350f-4631-a5a7-b09a6e070f3c">tell</span></span> you are awesome. It’s when they start to hate that you know you have their attention.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I love haters because they give you all their attention.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“They will hate you if you’re pretty. They will hate you if you’re not. They will hate you for what you lack and they will hate you for what you got.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Haters are like crickets. They make a lot of noise. You can hear them but never see them, then you walk right by them and they are quiet.”</span></span></blockquote>
<br />spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-56794213380332542742014-08-09T00:51:00.000-04:002014-08-11T00:51:40.376-04:0013 Hot Men and Their Feline Counterparts<h1 style="color: #333333; font-family: Cabin; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 13px;">
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spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-52990428789669296982014-07-27T14:17:00.000-04:002014-07-28T14:22:39.542-04:00Mobile slaughter on rise in U.S (mobile slaughtering units)<div class="headline" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, verdana, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 0px 0px 5px;">
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<span class="name" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 15px 5px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY ALAN BJERGA, BLOOMBERG</span> <span class="timestamp" style="color: #999999; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 15px 5px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">JULY 26, 2014</span></div>
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects the number of mobile slaughterhouse units to grow and has provided financial assistance to at least four in the past half-decade</h1>
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The six-person team gathers its equipment and heads out in heavy boots and tie-dyes, moving in for the kill.</div>
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Sharpened knives? Check. Scalder? Check. A "kill cone" to drain blood from upsidedown chickens? Check.</div>
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Towed behind a Ford F-250 pickup, Island Grown Initiative's mobile poultry slaughtering unit is on the move in Martha's Vineyard, ready to feed the growing appetite for locally raised products on the Massachusetts island best known as a vacation playground for the Kennedys.</div>
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"Without that unit, I would not be able to farm," said Jefferson Munroe, 34, who tends a small flock on the north side of the island that provides fresh chicken to local restaurants.</div>
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While fruit and vegetable growers can often handle their own harvesting needs, livestock requires slaughter - a messy business that could be unwelcome in affluent communities, where demand for locally produced food is highest. Enter Island Grown, a non-profit formed by Munroe and others that comes to the farm to slaughter, scald and pluck.</div>
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates 20 mobile units are in operation around the country. Units from Texas to Alaska butcher birds, cows, pigs and other animals as the market for locally produced food has grown from a beachhead of hippie co-ops and healthfood stores to Whole Foods Market Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Kroger Co.</div>
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"Mobile slaughter is crucial" to building local and regional food systems, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an interview. "It's still a relatively small piece of agriculture, but what I like about it is it offers local opportunities. You don't have to be a large operator, or a productionsized operator, to get into this business."</div>
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The department expects the number of units to grow and has provided financial assistance to at least four in the past half-decade, Vilsack said. Along with $17 million US in aid to the local-meat sector since 2009, the department has given advice on feasibility and technical assistance. Island Grown received $9,300 from the USDA for education and promotion.</div>
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The number of farmers engaged in local-foods sales rose 24 per cent to 144,530 in 2012 from a decade earlier, according to an agriculture department census released in May. That growth took place even as the total number of producers fell 0.9 per cent to 2.11 million in the same period.</div>
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A consolidation of agriculture has squeezed out smaller slaughterhouses that could profitably serve alternative producers. Bigger facilities, which offer economies of scale and advantages in waste handling, can be out of place in upscale areas such as Martha's Vineyard, 113 kilometres south of Boston, where seasonal visitors include the Obamas, singer James Taylor and moviemaker Spike Lee.</div>
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Farmers outside Seattle were early adopters of mobile slaughtering more than a decade ago. Roving units have processed lambs and goats in California, buffalo in Nebraska, elk and boar in Texas and turkeys, pheasants and quail in Kentucky. A unit in Nome, Alaska, slaughters reindeer.</div>
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In New York's Hudson Valley, mobile operators who slaughtered cows from 2010-12 are considering ways to restart, said Sara Grady, vice-president of programming for Glynwood, a nonprofit based in Cold Spring, N.Y., dedicated to rural preservation.</div>
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The unit stopped production after the farmer who ran it built a brick-and-mortar slaughterhouse - the goal of many mobile operators. The group is now taking proposals to resume operation in co-operation with restaurants and retailers who will cut and wrap the animals they kill, Grady said.</div>
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"If we're going to have a proliferation of independent, sustainable agriculture, we also have to have business people who have the skills to bring these products to market," she said.</div>
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Local-foods businesses tend to work best near cities, where pricey farmland and affluent consumers create incentives for high value rather than commodity-based farming, said Tom Cosgrove, vice-president for commercial lending with Farm Credit East, a nationwide agricultural lender.</div>
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As farms have grown larger and food processing has become more centralized, infrastructure needed to make small operations work has deteriorated, in some cases keeping a market from emerging, he said.</div>
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"You had less demand for smaller facilities," said Cosgrove. "You also had more concern with food safety," with larger businesses better able to absorb regulatory costs, he said.</div>
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The USDA inspects red meat and poultry sold across state borders. Food produced for consumption in state is typically inspected by that jurisdiction and must meet federal standards. Island Grown is visited by Massachusetts inspectors twice a year.</div>
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Vilsack said safety is a priority no matter the size of the operation. "One thing that could damage the potential of this market is any sort of food safety problem," he said.<br />
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Island Grown started in 2007 as a way to jump-start a local poultry industry on Martha's Vineyard - overcoming the same barriers alternative food entrepreneurs across the U.S. face in a food system that isn't designed for them.</div>
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"We don't fit very well with Tyson and ConAgra, but we have customers who are willing to pay for the meat," said Ali Berlow, a Martha's Vineyard resident who wrote a book on how to operate a mobile poultry slaughterhouse and helped design the local unit.</div>
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spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-62754712708836777892014-07-25T19:31:00.000-04:002014-08-01T19:34:21.153-04:00The Vegan Drag Queen - Episode 5 (Kale Salad) One of my FAVORITE episodes of Honey LaBronx's Vegan Drag Queen cooking show!<br />
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Featuring <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan </i>from <a href="http://www.ourhenhouse.org/" target="_blank">Our Hen House</a>.</span><br />
<br />spookiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155743484773254854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13546640.post-57745981912191428602014-07-06T12:00:00.000-04:002014-07-11T03:55:06.670-04:00Happy Tails: King Gets the Royal Treatment<span style="font-size: large;">A group of us on Facebook helped to identify the abuser and the location in which the abuse took place.</span> By recognizing where this apartment complex was, I was able to help the rest of the group nail down the exact numeric address. I knew the building was on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, but I was unsure of the address. Within hours, everything was posted and by the time I returned home from work, it was on the nightly news. The apathetic creep was arrested. Sadly, the cat had not been found... <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f82bcd0c-2d75-4ef7-a7f9-14a068baed93" id="578371b4-b9c6-460e-898c-8d59b8cd0cc5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c8a106d9-799e-421c-b2e5-06c5b1d0bd70" id="1acd2d43-c41b-4ceb-bdd2-fae11cabbf40">not</span></span> that night. The story had a happy ending, though! King the cat was eventually found and he now has a wonderful home!<br />
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No video enhancing software was used on my end. I <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ba1bbabf-6186-44fe-8374-c073760e6750" id="033725d6-e17b-4939-8d7c-9fe22df62b30"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ca31df27-e2b9-476b-8644-f9cae7bb52c7" id="35f66025-3f4d-4686-b77c-5b1266cc11de">recognized the area from</span></span> my old route to work!<br />
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The King has found his castle.</div>
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King, the one-year-old male feline who survived a <a href="http://www.aspca.org/blog/brave-nyc-cat-survives-brutal-kick-recovers-at-aspca-animal-hospital" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">vicious kick in Brooklyn</a>, was adopted by Chris Scordo of Manhattan, who by chance saw a recent story about him in <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="72569b8d-8df2-409f-a32b-2af03685c28f" id="85c09e26-f0cb-4ae7-acbd-669caac5d152"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="90925ec7-d7b2-43f5-8258-e589619b2b00" id="c758f89d-05d4-43d6-bd0a-143e209a9e08">the<a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Daily</a></span><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a></span><a class="external data-ga-code-ny-daily-news-exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-blog-post-20140625" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-viciously-kicked-cat-adoption-article-1.1821278" style="color: #ff7800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> News</a>.</div>
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“I went to a diner for breakfast [June 8] and someone had left their Daily News behind,” explains Chris. “In the paper was a photo of this really handsome cat. I remembered seeing the earlier headline about him and thought the paper had been sitting around for a long time. I was sure the adoption was over. Then I saw the [paper’s publication] date and headed to the ASPCA.”</div>
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King, who suffered tissue injuries and bruising, was brought to the ASPCA’s Animal Hospital on May 7 by NYPD officers after being located and trapped by representatives of various animal welfare organizations, including the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals.</div>
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Chris, whose 20-year-old calico named Chandler had died six weeks earlier from cancer, had thought about getting another cat.</div>
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“I didn’t think I could replace her so soon, but I had a feeling when I saw King’s photograph,” he says. “He has a very expressive face—very bright-eyed. I liked him before I even met him.”</div>
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<img alt="Grey and white cat with orange eyes" class="media-element file-media-original" src="http://www.aspca.org/sites/default/files/aspca-happy-tail-king-gets-the-royal-treatment-589x393-1.jpg" height="393" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="ASPCA Happy Tails: King Gets the Royal Treatment" width="589" /></div>
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To Chris’ surprise, he was the first to arrive at the ASPCA and get the chance to interact with King. He met with Adi Hovav, a feline behavior counselor, who green-lighted the adoption after speaking at length with the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a21e515a-936f-4ca7-bfad-ea2fcd5a86b9" id="34ecc431-9565-4a66-aa8a-7d005393a6af"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a4c293a5-2a80-4c22-b056-70e3dbce80ee" id="7681a7f3-c329-46de-bafc-0c9e56fd64da">life-long</span></span> animal lover who has a soft spot for felines.</div>
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“I stayed up the whole night that first night—King needs a lot of engagement!” exclaims Chris, who works in the IT field, and often from home. “He acclimated right away after hiding for only an hour or so, and has been playing and exploring ever since. He’s a fun cat—and a bit of a tough guy. I suppose that’s how he survived.”</div>
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After first hearing King’s story, Chris was reluctant to watch the disturbing video (which immediately went viral) of King’s abuse, but did so after adopting him. “I felt like I had to witness what happened, he says. “That guy not only betrayed King’s trust, but what bothered me even more was that people were laughing. They should be held accountable, too.”</div>
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<img alt="Chris Scordo holding King the Cat" class="media-element file-media-original" src="http://www.aspca.org/sites/default/files/aspca-happy-tail-king-gets-the-royal-treatment-589x393.jpg" height="393" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="ASPCA Happy Tails: King Gets the Royal Treatment" width="589" /></div>
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Despite his ordeal, King remains trusting and positive—“a real New Yorker,” according to Chris. King has taken to being held and is becoming more affectionate. “He was startled at first, but he now lets me hold him for short amounts of time,” Chris reports. The feisty feline also loves munching meatballs. “Maybe he’s part Italian?” Chris jokes.</div>
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As for King’s name, Chris says he thought about changing it to ‘Milo,’ “after the Greek strongman, or something macho. But he was already a minor celebrity, and I didn’t want to take that away from him.”</div>
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“I hope something good comes of this; maybe King can be a symbol of peace,” Chris adds. “I’ve seen the cruelty people can inflict on animals and I know he, like me, would want the laws stiffened.”</div>
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Chris promises to give King the best life he can. “I was amazed at how many people were involved in finding him and caring for him,” he says. “He’ll never suffer again. He’ll have a heated bed in the winter, the best food and medical care, all the toys he wants, and plenty of love and affection.”</div>
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In other words, a life fit for a king.</div>
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<img alt="Grey and white cat laying on bed" class="media-element file-media-original" src="http://www.aspca.org/sites/default/files/aspca-happy-tail-king-gets-the-royal-treatment-589x393-2.jpg" height="393" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="ASPCA Happy Tails: King Gets the Royal Treatment" width="589" /></div>
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King the cat recovers after being kicked 20 feet by Brooklyn man</h1>
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The 1-year-old cat is currently recovering at the ASPCA Animal Hospital after surviving a brutal kick in the stomach by a 21-year-old Brooklyn man. The ASPCA says King is not yet ready for adoption.</h2>
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</td><td style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-none gig-button-container-stumbleupon gig-button-container-stumbleupon-count-none gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-horizontal" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; display: inline-block; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; width: auto;">
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</td><td id="a-gigya-h-reaction7-right" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr>
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</td><td style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-right gig-button-container-comments gig-button-container-comments-count-right gig-share-button-container gig-button-container-horizontal" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; display: inline-block; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; width: auto;">
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<tr style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td class="gig-button-td" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto;"><div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-right" id="a-gigya-h-reaction8" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="">
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<tr style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><td id="a-gigya-h-reaction8-left" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td><td id="a-gigya-h-reaction8-icon" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none repeat-x; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" src="http://multimedia.nydailynews.com/css/article/icon/comments.png" id="a-gigya-h-reaction8-icon_img" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; display: block; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" /></td><td id="a-gigya-h-reaction8-right" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"></td></tr>
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</td><td style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="gig-counter gig-share-counter gig-counter-$rid gig-counter-right" id="a-gigya-h-reaction8-count" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2Fsharebar%2Ficons%2F%5Bfacebook%2Ctwitter%2Ctwitter%2Creddit%2Cgoogle%2Cdigg%2Ctumblr%2Cstumbleupon%2Ccomments%2Cemail%2Cprint%5D.png%7C16%2C16) -8px 0px no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px auto 0px 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 38px; zoom: 1;">
<span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-right gig-share-counter-text-right" id="a-gigya-h-reaction8-count-value" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; zoom: 1;">18</span></div>
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<div alt="" class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-none" id="a-gigya-h-reaction9" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; background: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; cursor: pointer; float: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="">
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King the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="047f5dac-acbd-4ee0-9bd5-f45d2f4cdd02" id="8f15980f-41a9-4f43-9042-4b256bb8d33b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5e5c6dba-ce64-40b1-8fe0-70acf67e236c" id="a87c8c00-55c3-4bed-8979-8e4bb326d36a">survivor</span></span> cat hasn’t lost his kick.</div>
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The gray cat who was mercilessly punted 20 feet by a perverse punk has landed on his feet and is healing well, his rescuers said Friday.</div>
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The 1-year-old gray cat was brutally kicked in the stomach May 2 by 21-year-old Andre Robinson outside the Brevoort Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.</div>
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Robinson laughed and danced after the vicious assault, which was captured on video by his friends, who can also be heard laughing about his cruel stunt.</div>
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His newfound fame has folks clamoring to give him a good home — but the cat’s not ready to come out of the bag just yet, the ASPCA said.</div>
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“Right now, the best way people can help cats like King is to visit the ASPCA Adoption Center — or any local shelter — and meet homeless animals equally deserving of loving families."</div>
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A 21-year-old sociopath-in-training was arrested yesterday for kicking a kitten. And the police caught up with him because the video—which shows Andre Robinson grinning like a tough guy (and his friends laughing hysterically<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="22799659-dbb0-418a-9d12-7b16a73a8ecd" id="ba45a4dc-3e44-49b4-9eaf-274229aa6926">)</span>—was posted on Facebook.<br />
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Last Friday, the footage <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=555368927914541">was posted on On The Real</a>, with the message, "This is NEVER okay to do. Please share; hopefully somebody will recognize this fool." <br />
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Apparently viewers of the video "<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621153/Man-arrested-horrific-cat-kicking-video-surfaced-Facebook-horror-animal-lovers-helped-track-down.html">used video enhancing software to blow up the scene</a>" which led cops to find the building, 1831 Fulton Street at the Breevort Houses. Police then recognized Robinson, who has prior <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4815d4f6-6274-49d7-8adb-fb145a7e0201" id="3307eb21-37aa-44ca-97dc-c711893d0d10"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fd74cc22-967a-411f-8213-bc4173247873" id="a52a96e1-7ffa-4047-b25b-569663a378ab">arrests including</span></span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4815d4f6-6274-49d7-8adb-fb145a7e0201" id="8baf9d4d-b527-4a13-b118-f1b7df2d9e38"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fd74cc22-967a-411f-8213-bc4173247873" id="24257339-2449-40d0-93ea-6f239643629f">knifepoint</span></span> robbery. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cat-flying-kick-heartless-creep-bk-article-1.1780412">The Daily News reports</a> that he admitted to the cops that he was the kicker: "Cops said Robinson had been outside waiting for a food delivery when the incident happened. He turned to his friends and said, 'Watch this,' according to cops. One of his friends started recording with his phone as Robinson set his trap for the cat."<br />
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The video shows Robinson kicking the cat very hard; "According to the arrest report, the cat flew about 20 feet — and a veterinarian confirmed to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2f2b22cc-e497-48f5-b38d-9beea2f3f37b" id="0f8a4697-ff78-41b2-bc31-6b372775b1c2"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6ba08482-1b47-426b-a012-9779dd0d008a" id="450ff82c-7be0-425e-a0ee-2924bed2d56e">cops</span></span> the brutal blow likely caused serious injury," <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cat-flying-kick-heartless-creep-bk-article-1.1780412">per the Daily News</a>. It's unclear where the cat is now, but police are looking for it.<br />
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A police source <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/05/05/man-arrested-after-kicking-cat-in-shocking-video/">told the Post</a>, “People who saw (the video) were really disturbed by it.” Robinson was charged with aggravated animal cruelty.<br />
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However, Robinson's mother insisted he was not a bad person, "He had to be high on something. It’s very out of his character. He had to be high to do what he did. This isn’t him... He loves animals. He loved his cats, he had dogs, he always loved them."<br />
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Father Coughlin is alive and well. He resides in an underground bunker he shares with Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. The trio works for Mark Zuckerberg, responding to complaints about anti-Semitism on Facebook.</div>
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When the three aren’t doing their job (which is most of the time), they’re collaborating on a “new and revised” edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They’re shopping it around and are having a tough time finding a publisher. Pluto Press said no and it’s not looking too <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4c97ab6c-dc5e-4a9a-a3d5-bdbbe8110be0" id="7b62b9ae-a06b-4982-b081-842b445484bc">good even</span> at <a href="http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2014/2/3/time-for-some-answers-from-united-church-of-christ-on-pilgrim-press" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Pilgrim Press</a>, so the troika is thinking of going the self-publishing route.</div>
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What I just told you is a big fat lie (or actually a whole bunch of them), but it’s still the best I can do to explain why Facebook does such a terrible job dealing with anti-Semitism on its website.</div>
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Here’s what happens:</div>
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Anonymous (and sometimes not-so-anonymous) lunatics post hateful pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic stuff on Facebook.</div>
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People dutifully complain about the stuff they see.</div>
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Facebook responds by telling people that the imagery does not violate the company’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">community standards</a>, (which includes bans on hate speech and the promotion of violence).</div>
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Who at Facebook sends out these messages? Really!</div>
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If it isn’t the trio of Coughlin, Ford, and Lindbergh, then maybe Facebook has farmed out the job of enforcing its community standards to Islamists in Pakistan or Iran. Or maybe they’ve contracted with a joint venture that includes the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda.</div>
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A while back, somebody from Bulgaria posted an <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/01/facebook_tolerates_pronazi_inc.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">image of a group of Nazi soldiers in the middle of massacring a group of Polish civilians</a>. Underneath the photo the Bulgarian Facebook user <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="febc7648-aff1-4c83-8c58-5e777524c366" id="41d70617-a260-4436-bd24-5050a0dfccdf">photoshopped</span> the Nike Swoosh with the trademark phrase, “Just Do It.”</div>
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After I saw the image, I clicked the proper buttons to tell the good folks at Facebook that the image needed to be taken down. I figured Facebook would take it down immediately, but instead, I got a message back from Facebook that said that the image “doesn’t violate our Community Standards.”</div>
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Being an Internet activist without peer (I work for CAMERA, mind you!), I wasn’t going to take no for an answer so I did the next necessary thing: I <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/01/facebook_tolerates_pronazi_inc.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blogged</a> about it!</div>
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And then I got really serious and reached out to the folks at Nike and said something like, “Um, folks, somebody is using your trademark to promote Nazism.”</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That</em> seemed to work. (I can’t take all the credit, because I’m sure that it occurred to other people that Nike wouldn’t want their trademark used in such a manner.)</div>
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In any event, the image eventually <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/01/facebook_admits_the_obvious.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">came down and the user’s account was deleted from Facebook</a>.</div>
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Huzzah! The good guys won! And a huge victory it was! Antisemitism was forever banned from the pages of Facebook!</div>
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But alas, the battle continues.</div>
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Recently, my correspondents have alerted me to another page on Facebook. The end of the URL includes the phrase “The Truth About Jews” and the page itself <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ee021fca-ab15-4ec1-af82-71b8708f3bfd" id="55380204-0b1f-4ece-87c0-43b4921bc127">promotes</span> Blood Libels against the Jewish people.</div>
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It’s titled “Jewish ritual murder.”</div>
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The page has all the stuff you’d expect <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2ecb3935-dd14-45b8-a5f4-338f095eaf2c" id="cf28afdf-fd69-4684-9b8d-19657662d07b">on</span> an anti-Semitic Facebook page. It has 248 “Likes” and includes anti-Jewish libels from all over the world. The page includes a disclaimer that is simply bizarre: “Comments that are offensive, obscene, vulgar, irrelevant to this page or classified as spam will be removed.” The entire page is offensive and obscene. And the page, which has been in existence since March 2012, is an exercise in vulgar anti-Semitism.</div>
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Yes, people have complained about the page. And yes, Facebook has responded with messages indicating that the page does <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">not</em> violate the company’s community standards.</div>
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Will the page eventually be removed? Probably. But why <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f3973d41-daa9-4f47-9413-aa38b13d6a85" id="0f889549-c2ab-43b0-96c4-c9eb5239fc77">doesn’t Facebook delete</span> this stuff when first <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f3973d41-daa9-4f47-9413-aa38b13d6a85" id="70d79cc3-c523-47dd-8862-f19775bf8ae6">apprised</span> of its presence on their website?</div>
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Why should it take any more than <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">one</em> complaint for Facebook to do the right thing?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PLEASE read the ENTIRE article and see all the photos on the Daily Mail UK website.<br /><br />Pictured: Cute dog that died after being locked in the kitchen for a week, now owner's ex boyfriend reveals 'she told me she couldn't cope'</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This is the cute dog that suffered a slow and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b1d5e142-ec66-40db-b861-22fc7a3ef097" id="599c929a-55a3-4c97-b4f7-affb60a25b7f">agonising</span> death at the hands of a female solicitor who 'couldn't cope' with the responsibility of looking after her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Katy Gammon, 27, abandoned five-year-old boxer Roxy while she stayed with her mother, leaving the dog to spend six days clawing at the door until she went blind, slipped into a coma and died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Gammon and her former boyfriend </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Adam Taylor, 24, adopted Roxy together but split up soon after, with Taylor saying his ex-girlfriend later contacted him to say she was struggling to look after the dog.</span></div>
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Cute: Five-year-old boxer Roxy suffered a slow and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8d893be2-10c7-4be5-9ba0-328136bcb30c" id="89bb7016-967c-48f2-bc56-fd2ff6190bf0">agonising</span> death at the hands of solicitor Kay <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8d893be2-10c7-4be5-9ba0-328136bcb30c" id="0d093d2d-4d46-4b2b-adef-ae2db28c9f46">Gammon who</span> 'couldn't cope' with the responsibility of looking after her</div>
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Cruel: Katy Gammon (right) abandoned five-year-old boxer Roxy (left) while she stayed with her mother. She left the dog to spend six days clawing at the door until she went blind, slipped into a coma and died</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When Gammon returned from her mother's home a week after abandoning Roxy, the stench through her <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9c9fc289-d235-4848-a3c2-737f3597855f" id="8df91d0b-5a2d-4cc6-bcd3-77e3c2e31ead">letterbox</span> was so strong that she could not face going inside.</span></div>
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Punishment: Gammon, is now facing prison after admitting two cruelty charges relating to her treatment of Roxy. She has lost her job with leading Bristol law firm Lyons Davidson and will be sentenced on April 9</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Gammon had appeared to dote on the dog during the time they were together, he told the Bristol Evening Post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Roxy originally belonged to a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="53d4db34-d65d-4195-a475-2f6f7aa1a5b6" id="40dcebb0-69a3-44dd-99b2-87439fdef45f">friend but</span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="53d4db34-d65d-4195-a475-2f6f7aa1a5b6" id="7e3b8210-b0cc-4b34-85e4-de42396c0725">developed</span> anxiety problems after being left alone all day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As Mr Taylor works evening shifts and Gammon worked in the daytime, they thought that between them someone would always be around to look after Roxy, so agreed to adopt her in December 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But five months later the couple split up - with Gammon saying she would take on the sole responsibility of looking after Roxy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Taylor says that within a few months, Gammon contacted him to say she was struggling to cope and was looking for a new home for Roxy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When they spoke a short time later, Gammon told him the dog was now with her sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Taylor said he then heard nothing until police contacted him in November 2013 with the news that Roxy had been left to die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said a stream of maggots had crawled from the kitchen down the hallway - to where there were <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="978495a5-fdda-4d45-a557-8976e79c6948" id="bef8f695-4cd1-4395-a2df-253c2556297e">tins</span> of dog food on a table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Gammon pleaded guilty to one count of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, and another of failing to prevent causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I had no idea about the extent of what happened - the police only told me part of it,' Mr Taylor said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Katy was great with the dog when we were together, that’s why I’m so confused. She played with toys, treats, and we took her out for walks together the odd time, although granted I did it most days.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Katy and Roxy used to be cuddled up in bed and on the sofa together all the time. I would walk in from work to find them both cuddled up on <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6ffb219b-b14c-4599-9a62-70b428e9ff41" id="337566c6-9ce5-4033-ac3b-ce87951caed5">sofa</span> watching telly. When we were together she was great <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="326cb070-afe4-4e28-966b-44968d2d746e" id="a96215e8-616e-4916-a9ab-bbcf52c5bb87">to</span> the dog.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I had a feeling something was up when she said she couldn’t cope with her anymore - I just wish I could have done more.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Taylor claims he had no idea that Gammon locked the dog in the kitchen each day, as before he left the dog was behaving better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added: 'I don’t know why Katy didn’t ask for help - she’s got lots of family and friends in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'She told me her sister had the dog and she lied to her family, telling them I had her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I want to make it clear that I had absolutely no idea what was happening to Roxy - if I’d have known I would have stepped in straight away.”</span></div>
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