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Disney Awards Conservation Grants to International Fund for Animal Welfare 8/19/03 2:54:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Nature Reporter Contact: Chris Cutter of IFAW, 508-744-2066 or ccutter@ifaw.org YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., Aug. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund (DWCF) has awarded three grants totaling $22,200 to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW -- http://www.ifaw.org) this year. The three grants will help fund a variety of IFAW projects around the globe including its work with endangered vaquitas (marine mammals) in Mexico, anti-poaching measures in Uganda, and rehabilitating endangered animals in Senegal. "IFAW's dedication to conservation will positively...

The first time I opened Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" I was dining alone at the Palm, trying to enjoy a rib-eye steak cooked medium rare. If this sounds like a good recipe for cognitive dissonance (if not indegestions), that was sort of the idea. Preposterous as it might seem, to supporters of animal rights, what I was doing was tantamount to reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on a plantation in the Deep South in 1852.... link to article