*  The best way to communicate to some people the message of
compassion for farmed animals is via their love for their animal
companions.  The November Guest Editorial, by Connecticut radio show
host Bruce Zeman, describes the Guardian Campaign of In Defense of
Animals, for which he and his dog friend Nathan are working.  The
campaign seeks to change people's perception of animals as property,
and themselves as owners, replacing it with the language of
guardianship.

*  Novelist Alice Walker provides another Unset Gem, urging justice to
every living thing.

*  NewsNote:  Michigan becomes the seventh state to pass a law that
will ban confining cages for certain farmed animals.

*  In a Letter, subscriber Gerald Niles describes changing farm
conditions in his home state of Iowa.

*  The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom shows a maternal chimpanzee
cuddling a tiger cub who, together with his twin, had to be taken away
from an aggressive mother.

*  The animal themes of the animated movie UP, which comes out on DVD
this month, are presented in a Film Review.

*  One of Angela Suarez' Recipes is a Sweet Potato Bake for a
delicious Thanksgiving feast.

*  In a wry Pilgrimage narrative, Keith M. Folino describes how he has
become a hopeless "wacko" on behalf of the environment.

*  Robert Frost's animal-fable poem "Departmental," a tour de force of
dazzlingly skillful rhyming, gives two scenes in the life of a colony
of ants.

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