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Dear Animal Times Reader,
I don't know about you, but I was a very slow learner. One day, when I was a humane officer in Maryland, I found a barn full of
animals who had been left behind when the people moved away. Only one little pig was alive. Barely, I held him in my arms, gave
him a drink of water from my cupped hand, and listened to his grateful, soft moans. My job was to find the perpetrators and
prosecute them for cruelty.
That night, driving home, tired and hungry, I was wondering what I could have for dinner. Oh, I thought, I have pork chops in
the fridge. Pork chops! Suddenly, after 20-some years of "loving" animals but eating the objects of my affection, I realized
that I was actually paying someone to be even more cruel to a pig in a slaughterhouse than the people I was about to prosecute.
I had no idea what I would eat (that was before Gardenburger soy breakfast sausages and Lightlife fake ham slices), but I knew
I couldn't carry on eating pigs!
I'll bet you have a story to tell of a rescue or of a holiday experience or perhaps of why you decided to stop eating animals
or of a way that you raise funds to help animal rights campaigns. Please, use the return envelope in this Animal Times
to share these stories with us. Just a few words will do. And whether or not you include an anecdote or idea, please take a
moment to tell us what your favorite topics in Animals Times are and have been. For example, many people became
vegetarian after reading our story of the downed cow, and we will continue to share that story with others. Do you remember
a story or a message that particularly moved you? Please pull out that envelope and let us know. If you can include a
donation, please do, and we will put that money to good use. If you're spring cleaning, we'll take that old fur, and don't
forget to replace everything you're throwing out with a non-animal version!
Thank you so much.
For all animals,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
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