Action for Animals Austin

She is a three year old Chihuahua. I've named her Spunky The Monkey. Her motto is "If you've got a face, I want to kiss it!"  

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WOW. Just WOW. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22steiner.htmlAnimal, Vegetable, MiserableBy Gary Steiner The New York Times November 21, 2009   Lately more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated? Did they have a good quality of life before the death that turned them into someone’s dinner?   Some of these questions, which reach a fever pitch in the days leading up...

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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/09/091109crbo_books_kolbert Flesh of Your FleshShould you eat meat?by Elizabeth Kolbert The New YorkerNovember 9, 2009   Americans love animals. Forty-six million families in the United States own at least one dog, and thirty-eight million keep cats. Thirteen million maintain freshwater aquariums in which swim a total of more than a hundred and seventy million fish. Collectively, these creatures cost Americans some forty billion dollars annually. (Seventeen billion goes to food and another twelve billion to...

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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_fur_store_fights_protwith_a.html Portland fur store fights protesters with a different tacticBy Anne SakerThe OregonianOctober 18, 2009Portland's last downtown furrier has taken a novel approach to anti-fur protesters outside his salon: He won restraining orders by accusing them of abusing him because he is elderly.Horst Grimm, 75, obtained the orders in July and August against four protesters, and a judge has agreed to hear more arguments on the case Nov. 4.Grimm owns Nicholas Ungar Furs at Southwest...

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2009 Festival Authors Jonathan Safran Foer Foer, lauded author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, takes a turn at nonfiction in Eating Animals, a book inspired by an urgent need to explain to his young children how people can love animals yet still consume them at dinner time. A vegetarian and periodic vegan, Foer quickly fell into a quest for answers after his children were born that led him to break...

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www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com  

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    The film is about the conspiracy between government and the food and chemical industries to keep us fat, unhealthy,and ignorant. The film shows what large industrial scale farming really looks like in this country.    I don't believe in conspiracy theories. In fact, most of them are total nonsense. But I do believe in the food conspiracy. As this film shows: - Government policy encourages the over production of corn, and the underproduction of...

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