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	<title>Let's Talk Farm Animals &#187; Activism</title>
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		<title>Animal activism: Like a charging cow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blog: Adele Buettner, Farm Animal Council Saskatchewan Most reasonable North Americans have always opposed animal cruelty. But if you had said “welfare” to ranchers and farmers 30 years ago most would have thought you meant a government cheque.  If you had spoken about farm animal care to most retailers, you would have been met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A teachable moment on fur applies to agriculture too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leslie Ballentine, Farm and food commentator As anyone who knows a teenager is probably aware this year’s hot ticket items for Christmas receiving (or any other occasion) included real UGG boots (not the synthetic copies) and Canada Goose jackets.  The price of these natural fibre clothing items put them in the “not happening” category [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why expertise does not trump politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Leslie Ballentine, Farming and Food Commentator There’s lots of talk on the need for science-based policy decisions by politicians at all levels of government.  No more so than at the municipal level.  The City of Toronto is a prime example of local politicians over-riding both science and experience in making decisions about animals. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no reasoning with the unreasonable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Leslie Ballentine, Farming and food commentator One of the great things about our country is the freedom to express and defend our personal opinions.  We have more venues to do so than ever before.  Not so long ago I was pulled into an on-line discussion on food animal production. The discussion was prompted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Meatless Mondays &#8211; Alleviating the consumer&#8217;s conscience without affecting climate change</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is reprinted with permission from the Animal Agriculture Alliance in the United States (www.animalalliance.org). For its full collection of Meatless Monday resources, visit  http://animalagalliance.org/current/home.cfm?Section=Meatless_Monday&#38;Category=Current_Issues. The Myth of Meatless Mondays – Alleviating the Consumer’s Conscience Without Affecting Climate Change Judith L. Capper, PhD, Washington State University In July, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released [...]]]></description>
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