A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

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Life Age Wide

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

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Relationship Health Very

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

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Nature Art While

I say peace begins on your plate.

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Peace Your You

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Life Age Wide

The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.

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Worth World Whale

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

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I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

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Love Would Wit

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

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Life You Would

Something is sick with our society that we have to deal with.

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Society Wit Thing

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

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Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

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It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

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Men Government Food

The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.

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Health Diet Art

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

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McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

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Art Yin Ted

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

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Time Zen UN

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

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Life World Who

Jodi Arias had a deadly obsession with Travis Alexander.

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Wit T Session

We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.

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Good Diet Washed

Shopping in the right kind of stores and looking for healthier foods can be a wonderful adventure to health.

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Health Food Wonderful

Denial is a very powerful thing.

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We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Now, Spitzer was an anti-crime crusader cracking down on prostitution and Wall Street corruption. So some people were looking to take him down.

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Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles.

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I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

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In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

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Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

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Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

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Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

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We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

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I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

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Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.

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Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

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Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

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Locking minors away for decades doesn't solve anything.

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Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is.

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I love working with PETA.

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There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

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In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

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The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

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Family issues and a failing career would be enough to consume most young actresses.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

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There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.

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