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	<title type="text">Advocacy For Animals</title>
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	<updated>2012-05-25T15:56:02Z</updated>

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			<name>Born Free USA</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[What Passes for &#8220;Cute&#8221; at Washington Zoo]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9853</id>
		<updated>2012-05-25T15:56:02Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-25T15:55:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Advocates for Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Zoos and Captivity" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Elephants" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Smithsonian National Zoological Park" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[by Will Travers, Chief Executive Officer, Born Free USA &#8212; Our thanks to Born Free USA for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on the Born Free USA Blog on May 11, 2012. Zoos. Don&#8217;t get me started. But what&#8217;s that you say? There’s an elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Administrator</name>
						<uri>http://advocacy.britannica.com</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Action Alerts from the National Anti-Vivisection Society]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9830</id>
		<updated>2012-05-24T17:47:35Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-24T17:45:47Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Advocates for Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Legal Issues" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called &#8220;Take Action Thursday,&#8221; which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Brian Duignan</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Capitalism, Captive Marine Mammals Go Hand in Flipper]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9804</id>
		<updated>2012-05-23T18:14:12Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-23T15:16:20Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals in Art and Entertainment" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Mental, Emotional, and Social Life" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Zoos and Captivity" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Dolphins" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Killer whales" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Seals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Shamu" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[by Kathleen Stachowski of Other Nations &#8212; Our thanks to Animal Blawg, where this post originally appeared on May 21, 2012. Dillard’s department store has raised my ire. Again. And again, swimsuits figure in. The first time&#8212;several years ago now&#8212;a swimwear sale ad blew me out of the water with its sexualized portrayal of a [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>LMurray</name>
						<uri>http://</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Who Am I?]]></title>
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		<updated>2012-05-23T21:14:09Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-23T13:00:24Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Who Am I?" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[See the answer]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Gregory McNamee</name>
						<uri>http://www.gregorymcnamee.com</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Animals in the News]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9763</id>
		<updated>2012-05-23T18:14:19Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-22T09:04:22Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Animals in the News" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Arthropods" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Orangutans" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Snakes" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Turtledoves" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[by Gregory McNamee The English biologist R.B.S. Haldane once observed that the creator would appear to have a passion for both stars and beetles, since he/she/it made so many of each of them. True enough, and the creator must have liked the desert, too, since the dry country is an arthropod&#8217;s dream. It makes sense, [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Richard Pallardy</name>
						<uri>http://</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Scandalous Social Lives of Bonobos]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9766</id>
		<updated>2012-05-23T21:15:05Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-21T09:04:20Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Mental, Emotional, and Social Life" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Bonobos" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Chimpanzees" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[by Richard Pallardy The comedy hot spot at any given zoo is always the primate house. Though the other animal inmates aren&#8217;t necessarily slouches in the laughs department (who hasn&#8217;t giggled at a deftly timed bowel movement in the pachyderm house or the slap-stick copulations in the chicken coop?), in looking back into the funhouse [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>National Anti-Vivisection Society</name>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Action Alerts from the National Anti-Vivisection Society]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9771</id>
		<updated>2012-05-23T19:52:35Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-17T18:09:46Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Advocates for Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Legal Issues" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Each week the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) sends out an e-mail alert called &#8220;Take Action Thursday,&#8221; which tells subscribers about current actions they can take to help animals. NAVS is a national, not-for-profit educational organization incorporated in the State of Illinois. NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect, and justice for animals through educational programs based on [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Brian Duignan</name>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Pork Industry Needs to Clean Up Its Act]]></title>
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		<id>http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/?p=9751</id>
		<updated>2012-05-23T18:14:41Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-16T14:42:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Food and Farm Animals" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Legal Issues" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Mental, Emotional, and Social Life" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Partner Blogs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Posts" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Factory farming" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="factory farms" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Pigs" /><category scheme="http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy" term="Undercover videos" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[by Michael Markarian &#8212; Our thanks to Michael Markarian, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on his blog Animals and Politics on May 15, 2012. &#8212; Warning: This post contains graphic descriptions of animal abuse. If you follow the issue of farm animal welfare closely, [...]]]></summary>
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