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		<title>Victoria&#8217;s Peacock Paradox</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was cycling along Oxford St by the Cook Street Village when I saw the strangest thing: two police officers putting a peacock in a &#8216;paddy wagon&#8217;. (Side note: peacocks are the flashy males, peahens are females, and known collectively as peafowl, but I&#8217;ll use the term peacock for the purpose [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Price of Caring For Pets in 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[➡Editors Note: Be sure to check out the Updates at the bottom. This isn&#8217;t a typical topic for The Victoria Vegan, but many vegans also support rescues, and try to give rescued animals the best lives they can, so this is likely a topic of interest to many of our readers, and may welcome some [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oreos &#8211; A Surprising Divider of Vegans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATE Nov 26/2024: There&#8217;s a surprising update to this story &#8211; we&#8217;ve got one more reason Oreos aren&#8217;t vegan: they&#8217;re now from a company that does animal testing. PETA has put out the word that Mondelez, the company that owns Oreos, has done some pretty awful stuff recently. (PDF backup.) Now if only PETA would [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Does Anyone Go Vegan After Being Yelled At?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does Anyone Go Vegan After Being Yelled At?Considering Why We Need To Be More Mindful With How We Protest Last weekend, Vancouver-based activists from Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) and new Victoria group The Critical Cat (formerly The Raging Kucing) allied for a number of actions, including a protest of the downtown restaurant &#8216;pig&#8217;. You can view the [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Humane Meat: It&#8217;s Not Humane for Nature</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, October 15th I attended the Wildlife Co-Existence Event organized by the Vegan Congress at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. I was flattered to be included (with a vastly more knowledgeable panel) featuring Dan Straker,  Urban Wildlife Coordinator of the Stanley Park Ecology Society, Dr. Sara Dubois, Chief Scientific Officer from the BC SPCA and [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Feeding the World? More Like Devouring the Planet.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent National Geographic Magazine features food, and feeding the predicted 9 billion people that are expected to be on planet Earth for 2050. While lacking in conviction, Jonathan Foley does suggest eating less meat and animal products. Like the majority of writers wishing to remain popular, he doesn&#8217;t push for eliminating what is a [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oak Bay: Slow Down for Deer!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday, December 20th, from 4-5pm, seven other deer activists joined me on Cadboro Bay Road across from the Uplands Golf Course on a frigid, rainy night holding bright signs to persuade drivers to slow down. Our media release can be read here. This section of road is the #1 site for deer fatalities in [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Single-Issue Campaigns: What They Are and How They Work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The following piece is from Movement Watch by Lee Hall, in the Winter 2011-12 issue of ActionLine, the Friends of Animals magazine. Unfortunately, some activists have declared what they call &#8216;single-issue&#8217; campaigns a stain on animal rights activism, and these efforts are never to be supported or followed. We believe this is a mistaken way [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Animal Law and Policy Must Change: Friends of Animals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Canada frequently trails others in its attitudes and policies regarding animals. Whether it&#8217;s a lack of a meaningful Endangered Species Act or protection of the trees and lands, or support of international treaties, protection for fur-bearing animals or ordinary anti-cruelty measures, Canada&#8217;s record is abysmal. Many people think of Canada and think of the annual [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Human Decency to Canada Seals? Only With Rational Policy-Makers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are generally two sides to a story, but in the case of seals, the majority of Canadian views are being grossly misrepresented at the International level. The European Union (EU) recently banned imports of commercially-killed seal products (fur, oil and flesh), denying Canadian seal-killers profits. Key markets now closed to seal pelts include Denmark, [...]]]></description>
		
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