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Book Review: Defending Animals by Kendra Coulter

October 20, 2025October 2, 2025 by Midge Raymond
Cover of Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection by Kendra Coulter

During the writing of Defending Animals: Finding Hope on the Front Lines of Animal Protection, Kendra Coulter’s dog, Sunny, spent many hours wrapped around her feet. Sunny, who had been abused …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pets, Veganism

Allowed to Grow Old, Portraits of Elderly Animals From Farm Sanctuaries

August 21, 2019 by JoeAnn Hart
Cover of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries by Isa Leshko

By Isa Leshko Foreword by Sy Montgomery Essays by Gene Baur and Anne Wilkes Tucker University of Chicago Press, 2019 First, a disclaimer. While I wouldn’t call it a sanctuary, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Essays, Nonfiction, Veganism

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