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Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:08:40 +0000

Gene Baur–president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, considered the world’s first farm animal sanctuary and advocacy organization, now marking its 40th anniversary—is nice enough, at my request, to recount the Sanctuary’s origin story for the umpteenth time, incorporating (also at my request!) where the Grateful Dead figures into the narrative, partly in a nod to […]

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Melissa Zepeda, attorney, animal rights advocate, Amendment 2 foe

Duncan — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:00:14 +0000

Melissa Zepeda–an attorney and accomplished animal rights advocate, with a notable breadth of interests and topics that have animated her activism—recalls growing up in family that revered animals, then being stopped in her tracks when a fellow high school debate-club member asked her how Zepeda could love her dog yet eat a hamburger. Zepeda not […]

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Rhonda Eldridge, Executive Director of The Community Pet Project

Duncan — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:00:04 +0000

Rhonda Eldridge–Executive Director of The Community Pet Project, which provides pet food and several other resources to homeless and at-risk communities throughout Hillsborough County—discusses the organization’s origin story, beginning in 2017 as an offshoot of a local rescue, before peeling off as a separate entity with 501c3 nonprofit status. The Community Pet Project was launched […]

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Carey Theil & Rory Goree, greyhound devotees

Duncan — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:38:53 +0000

Carey Theil, executive director of GREY2K USA Worldwide, the largest greyhound protection organization in the world, and Rory Goree, who for many years ran the largest industry-funded greyhound adoption group, Greyhound Pets of America, explain how–as former enemies in the battle to end greyhound racing–they transformed into allies. Goree and Theil (co-author–with Christine Dorchak, GREY2K […]

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Amy P. Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

Duncan — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 05:00:32 +0000

Amy P. Kight, executive director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, discusses the Sanctuary, its imminent relocation, some resident animals, the recent fatal gator attack in Fort Pierce, and more.

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Shelley Thayer–Executive Director of Sarasota’s Cat Depot

Duncan — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:00:16 +0000

Shelley Thayer–Executive Director of Sarasota’s Cat Depot, one of the largest non-profit, no-kill feline rescue and adoption centers in the country based in Kingston, Canada–discusses some of the traits that distinguish the organization, including its 10,000-feet, state-of-the-art facility (with recessed litter boxes); and the lifetime guarantee for any cat they adopt out; outlines the history […]

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