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We advocate on all animal protection and exploitation issues, including experimentation, factory farming, rodeos, breeders and traveling animal acts.

Animal Defenders of Westchester
P.O. Box 205
Yonkers, NY 10704

Letters

Protective circle

Published in the NY Daily News 11/29/2004):

Yonkers: To Voice Michael Jimenez: PETA supporters do not expect you to be a human host for biting mosquitoes or rats; you are entitled to establish a personal comfort zone.

However, fish have a pain-producing nervous system like you do; for that reason, they are entitled to establish a comfort zone, too.

Is the criterion for compassion and respect based on how much they look like us or whether they can walk and talk? I think not.

Kiley Blackman
 

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