Have you ever read Donald Griffin's The Question of Animal Awareness (1979)? It really cut a path through the intellectual wilderness as it was then.

For more inspiration, (re)read Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild's history of the Abolition movement. A lot of it focuses on the enormous changes in public consciousness that took place in the late 18th & early 19th centuries - the first time in history, Hochschild points out, that "a large number of people became outraged, and stayed outraged for many years, over someone else's rights...." Many similarities and much to be learned from that movement.

-j

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From: Mary Long
Sent: Aug 14, 2010 11:00 PM
To: Mickaboo media advisor team
Cc: glassgerrie@gmail.com
Subject: [Media-advisors] Cool quote for other pioneers

Had to share this cool quote tonight after the Singularity Summit: Dr. Terry Sejnowski asked Dr. P., referring to all ultra harsh-scrutiny studying animal cognition esp. in the early years, “Do you know the difference between the pioneers and those that follow? The pioneers have the arrows in their backs.”

So figure, as this pet-store ban continues to move forward - everyone who has helped to move this ban along will be able to recognize one-another by the arrows collected.