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Shares 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 ....
Shares New York-based animal protection organization Farm Sanctuary recently launched a new website that takes a wider approach to animal advocacy. In addition to advocating for animals in industrial agriculture, the new platform and digital resource highlight the interrelated issues of oppression that stem from the global food system, including social injustices, human rights violations, and community health crises, and aims to educate consumers on how a shift from an animal-based to a plant-based lifestyle can be the most impactful social change movement of our time. A multifaceted problem Though Farm Sanctuary says it has been doing social justice work for years, the organization believes now is the time to spark a long-overdue conversation about it. Its work in this area has included panel discussions, events, advocacy actions, and humane education curriculums that explore our food system through a social justice lens. Its website also spotlights some of these is ....