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	<title>Free From Harm</title>
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	<description>Save Lives, Optimize Health, Protect the Planet, Reduce World Hunger, Help Preserve Local Communities - Just by Making the Right Food Choices</description>
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		<title>Samuel the Jersey Calf: The Hidden Face of Dairy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Cruelty Investigation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The story of Samuel the dairy calf is an important one because it depicts the typical fate of male calves that are purely incidental "byproducts" of keeping dairy cows pregnant and lactating so they may produce a steady flow of mammary glad secretions we call milk. After just 4 to 5 cycles of pregnancy these dairy cows will become what the industry calls "spent" and in their fragile end of production state, the reward for their free labor is to be hauled off on often long and grueling journeys to slaughterhouses where they will meet the same violent end as animals raised for meat. <a href="http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/samuel-the-jersey-calf-the-hidden-face-of-dairy/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Are We Really Meant to Eat Today?</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/food-and-culture/what-are-we-really-meant-to-eat-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The thing about humans is that we are highly evolved omnivores. We have adapted to survive according to whatever foods are available. When fruits, nuts, and plants are plentiful, we eat plants. When meat, fish, poultry is available, we et animal foods. <a href="http://freefromharm.org/food-and-culture/what-are-we-really-meant-to-eat-today/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Vegan Leafleter Wins Philadelphia Court Settlement for Illegal Arrest Case</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/vegan-leafleter-wins-philadelphia-court-settlement-for-illegal-arrest-case/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/vegan-leafleter-wins-philadelphia-court-settlement-for-illegal-arrest-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animals and the Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Philadelphia has agreed to pay $15,000 to Edward Coffin, an animal rights activist who was illegally arrested and held for two hours for handing out fliers on a public sidewalk outside a Whole Foods store. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on Coffin's behalf in December 2011. <a href="http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/vegan-leafleter-wins-philadelphia-court-settlement-for-illegal-arrest-case/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The River of Blood That Flows from Dallas, TX to Koscierzyna, Poland</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/food-and-psychology/the-river-of-blood-that-flows-from-dallas-tx-to-koscierzyna-poland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The coincidence of finding the same kind of story in two completely different parts of the world on the same day seems uncanny. Or is it far more common than we care to know? On the same day, I found two news stories surface, one about a river of pig blood coming from a slaughterhouse in a small town in Poland called Koscierzyna and the other, about pig blood flowing down a river in Dallas, TX.  <a href="http://freefromharm.org/food-and-psychology/the-river-of-blood-that-flows-from-dallas-tx-to-koscierzyna-poland/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bearing Witness: The First Stage in Changing the Paradigm for Animals</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/veganism/bearing-witness-the-first-stage-in-changing-the-paradigm-for-animals/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/veganism/bearing-witness-the-first-stage-in-changing-the-paradigm-for-animals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are an animal advocate or just someone who is concerned with animal issues, the first most important task we have is to find creative ways to get people to bear witness to the suffering of animals for food and other uses. You can't have a meaningful conversation with someone who has not yet been exposed to the reality you too have witnessed. The act of witnessing forms the basis of a constructive dialogue about our impact on animals and what we can do about it. <a href="http://freefromharm.org/veganism/bearing-witness-the-first-stage-in-changing-the-paradigm-for-animals/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Struggle to Survive: The Study of Pleasure in Animals</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-intelligence/beyond-the-struggle-to-survive-the-study-of-pleasure-in-animals/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-intelligence/beyond-the-struggle-to-survive-the-study-of-pleasure-in-animals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farm Animal Intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Happy, healthy animals are beautiful to behold. They make us smile, and there’s value in that. But pleasure has deeper meaning and significant implications for humankind’s relationship with other animals. Pleasure adds intrinsic value to life – that is, value to the individual who feels it regardless of any perceived worth to anyone else. Pleasure seekers have wants, needs, desires, and lives worth living. They can have a good quality of life. If we let them." <a href="http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-intelligence/beyond-the-struggle-to-survive-the-study-of-pleasure-in-animals/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Farm to Fridge</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/videos/why-vegan/farm-to-fridge/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/videos/why-vegan/farm-to-fridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Documentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why Vegan?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This groundbreaking documentary short provides a rare and unflinching glimpse inside of America's animal agriculture with footage from the many undercover investigations conducted by Mercy for Animals.
 <a href="http://freefromharm.org/videos/why-vegan/farm-to-fridge/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Portman Working on a Vegan Documentary Based on the Book &#8216;Eating Animals&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/food-and-culture/natalie-portman-working-on-a-vegan-documentary-based-on-the-book-eating-animals/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/food-and-culture/natalie-portman-working-on-a-vegan-documentary-based-on-the-book-eating-animals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Portman took a break from her career after the release of Black Swan to have a child with fiancé Benjamin Millepied, whom she met on the set of her movie, but she's now back to work, this time on a documentary project based on the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran-Foer which she claims led her to a veganism a few years back. <a href="http://freefromharm.org/food-and-culture/natalie-portman-working-on-a-vegan-documentary-based-on-the-book-eating-animals/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Martha Stewart Denounces Factory Farming in New Video</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/martha-stewart-denounces-factory-farming-in-new-video/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/martha-stewart-denounces-factory-farming-in-new-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Martha Stewart denounces factory farming in a new video recorded by Farm Sanctuary. The interesting thing here is that the focus is only on factory farming which is simply the result of a mindset that views certain animals as commodities to satisfy human pleasures. She does not denounce eating animals on principle because doing so reduces their value to mere commodities. And yet it is precisely this belief—that animals are here for our use—that is the justification and catalyst behind a system of food production that uses animals as resources on a scale of mass production that we have come to know as factory farming. Therefore, to denounce factory farming without providing a solution, leaves her audience wondering, what should I do? Look for humane products? Go vegetarian, vegan? The answer is unclear.
 <a href="http://freefromharm.org/animal-rights/martha-stewart-denounces-factory-farming-in-new-video/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Meat of the Issue: Normal, Natural and Necessary?</title>
		<link>http://freefromharm.org/food/health-nutrition/why-people-eat-meat/</link>
		<comments>http://freefromharm.org/food/health-nutrition/why-people-eat-meat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Free From Harm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the last 24 hours, I've had an earful of reasons why people eat meat. Most of the reasoning centers around health. Many say when they tried to be vegetarian their health declined. Others say eating animals is part of the "circle of life." Still others believe that some animals were somehow born into this world to serve us as food. Having come out of a Melanie Joy's vegan empowerment workshop last night, I am inspired by her insights about why people believe they need to eat animals and how to best communicate with them about the issue.
 <a href="http://freefromharm.org/food/health-nutrition/why-people-eat-meat/"><span class="meta-nav">... READ ON</span></a>]]></description>
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