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Outreach for Animals Fundraising

Outreach for Animals Week 2009 is an innovative outreach and fundraising event with the goal of educating the public about farm animals and vegetarianism. Sign up now and raise pledges from friends, family, and neighbors. Then spend three or more hours some time during the week of October 10-18 handing out leaflets to empower individuals to make compassionate choices for animals.

This is a chance to raise awareness for animals and funds for Compassionate Action for Animals' vital work.

It only takes a few minutes to create your Online Fundraising Page:

1. Click the Get Started button
2. Personalize the text and the photo on your Online Fundraising Page to express your passions and your purpose.
3. Send the link out to your friends, family, or colleagues - anyone you think will help you reach your goal.

Participate in Outreach for Animals Week today!

Article: Evidence Points to Conscious "Metacognition" in Some Nonhuman Animals

Some animals may be able to reflect upon their states of mind.
By J. Patricia Donovan, as posted in UB NewsDirect Online

September 14, 2009

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind...

He says "comparative psychologists have studied the question of whether or not non-human animals have knowledge of their own cognitive states by testing a dolphin, pigeons, rats, monkeys and apes using perception, memory and food-concealment paradigms...

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Recipe: Missing Egg Sandwich

This egg-free sandwich makes a great lunch to bring to school or work and will leave your friends wondering, "is this really egg-free?"

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