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Iconic actress and animal-rights advocate Mary Tyler Moore died this morning at the age of 80 in a Connecticut hospital. Moore was best-known for her role as strong career woman Mary Richards on 1970s television series
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In addition to inspiring young women to take leadership roles, animal-rights activists remember Moore for her work with Farm Sanctuary in bringing awareness to the cruelty behind factory farming. A longtime vegetarian, Moore appeared in the 2002 Farm Sanctuary documentary
Life Behind Bars in which the actress passionately narrated footage of animal cruelty captured at factory farms. “Throughout her life, Mary challenged the status quo,” Farm Sanctuary founder Gene Baur told VegNews. “As a woman, she fought to wear pants in her TV role in the early 1960s, and as an animal lover, she realized that eating animals didn’t align with being kind, so she became vegetarian.” Baur added, “She was determined to make a difference
Sean Penn fires back at criticism over his COVID-19 vaccine site: âBetrayal of allâ
By Maya Lau and Laura J. Nelson
February 4, 2021 â 3.31am
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Los Angeles: In New Orleans, Sean Penn lifted people out of Hurricane Katrinaâs floodwaters, traversing the swamped city in a boat. A few years later after the earthquake in Haiti, there he was, hauling heavy bags on his own shoulders alongside locals.
Now, the two-time Oscar-winning actor and disaster relief philanthropist is deploying his organisationâs army of volunteers and staff at COVID-19 vaccine sites in Los Angeles and testing sites across the US, earning praise for taking action when the government came up short.