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		<title>Review: The Adventures of Vivian Sharpe, Vegan Superhero by Marla Rose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment & Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: I purchased this book myself, this review was not requested by anyone, and I receive no compensation for writing this review. This book engaged me right from the start, as Vivian Sharpe, the 15 year old hero of the story, experiences something that creates an awareness of what (and specifically, who) the food she&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5245&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is so much fun watching the rescued turkeys enjoy their outdoor pasture, acting like their wild cousins. This is Miwok and Cheyenne. They are two of five turkeys who were dropped off at the sanctuary a couple weeks before Thanksgiving. After their quarantine, the four boys (the girl is with the female turkeys) were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5234&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Senator Reintroduces Ag-Gag Bill</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/12/23/florida-senator-reintroduces-ag-gag-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Senator Jim Norman believes that accessing farms and taking video or still photographs is almost like terrorism. At the behest of an egg farmer, Norman introduced legislation (SB 1184) that would criminalize the act of taking photography on farms. The nonhumans on these farms experience actual terrorism in their daily lives. Accessing farms in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5230&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hugs All Around</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal sanctuaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas gets a big hug from our animal care manager at the sanctuary. He loves hugs, although these days he and his brother Linus consider themselves big boys and avoid physical contact with people at all costs. They&#8217;ll get over this, as all growing calves do, and we will welcome them back with open arms. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5214&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Bit of Chicken Love</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/08/24/a-little-bit-of-chicken-love/</link>
		<comments>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/08/24/a-little-bit-of-chicken-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[animal place]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctuaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been asked if chickens feel. Emotions. Thoughts. Sometimes I am told whether they do or not (and when I *am* being told, it&#8217;s to let me know they don&#8217;t). I am unsure of the nuances and depth of chicken thought and feelings. I know they experience emotions, I have seen it. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5204&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holding Onto Sorrow</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/07/25/holding-onto-sorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/07/25/holding-onto-sorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My little note: I am a firm believer that things will get better, that progress will continue to be made for all oppressed beings. But this post is less about that and more about sadness. Just want to express that caveat &#8211; I think we have the right, have earned it, to feel what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5193&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pigs &#8211; A Happier Note</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/06/30/pigs-a-happier-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mercy for Animals is always depressing me with their undercover investigations, and their recent one at a pig farm is no exception (warning: video automatically starts playing, it&#8217;s not pretty). They leave me feeling like I&#8217;m one of a few sane people in a really messed up world. I mean, by this point, why isn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5181&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Away</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/06/27/flying-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, Celeste flushed out a wild turkey hen from brush at the sanctuary. In a flurry of motion and flapping, the hen leaped in the air and took flight. There was grace and strength in that motion. Every time I see a wild turkey fly, I think of what domestic white- and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5173&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Is A Right, Not A Privilege, Orlando Riding The Failboat</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/06/14/food-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-orlando-riding-the-failboat/</link>
		<comments>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/06/14/food-is-a-right-not-a-privilege-orlando-riding-the-failboat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intersections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food not bombs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around 15 volunteers from the Orlando Foot Not Bombs chapter have been arrested for, oh my gosh hold your breath, feeding homeless people! I know, right? I love the Orlando chapter, because they are all smiling being walked away in handcuffs, those miscreants! Orlando doesn&#8217;t have anything more important to worry about, like a violent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5166&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary&#8221; by Andrew Westoll</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/06/10/on-the-chimps-of-fauna-sanctuary-by-andrew-westoll/</link>
		<comments>http://challengeoppression.com/2011/06/10/on-the-chimps-of-fauna-sanctuary-by-andrew-westoll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a vegan and animal rights activist, I can easily review Andrew Westoll’s “The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery” by focusing, perhaps to the point of ranting, about speciesism and exceptionalism. After all, what discussion about any kind of rights for chimps or other apes doesn’t come down to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&#038;blog=10928808&#038;post=5132&#038;subd=challengeoppression&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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