Gayle Dean

Gayle Dean is a freelance writer, philosopher, outdoorswoman, and cruciverbalist. Her work has been widely published and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, L.A. Times, Simon & Schuster books, River Runner magazine, Men's News Daily, Universal Press, and Dell Puzzle Magazines. Her puzzle book series (Wordplay Crosswords, Volumes 1 & 2) was published by Merriam-Webster.

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The CCF: They Know Better Than To Bully Barker
I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better. ~Bob Barker The so-called Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is at it again. This time, they're not attacking groups like the American Medical Associat...
Beware Corporate Wolves In Consumer Watchdog Clothing
The so-called Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is at it again. This time, it's not the American Medical Association or Mothers Against Drunk Driving they're after. Instead, it's the Physicians' Committee For Responsible Medicine (PCRM). The PCRM is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive...
Consumers! Beware Corporate Lapdogs Posing As Consumer Watchdogs
The so-called Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is at it again, this time attacking PETA. But their ploy has backfired. The CCF was set to run a full-page ad against PETA, in this week's Hollywood edition of Variety, but Variety pulled the ad at the 11th hour. That's good news because one thing we...
"CONSUMER" GROUP PROMOTES SUGAR, FAT, MEAT, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a group of lobbyists masquerading as consumer advocates, recently attacked Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes, which advocates a healthy lifestyle and vegan diet. Dr. Barnard's program is based on a major study conducted in conjunction with...
A Terrorist Under Every Bush?
The government took the "you’re either with us or against us" rhetoric of the War on Terrorism, the same mentality as the Red Scare, and applied it to animal rights activists. ~Will Potter Following a well-worn script, Dusty Loy tries to label all animal-rights advocates as "terrorists". H...
Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Let the Animals Pick Up the Tab
Currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory and animal studies.  ~Mike Leavitt, Health and Human Services Secretary, USDA press release January 12, 2006 Animal researchers insist tha...
Animal Research: Fines Are No Substitute For Moral Responsibility
I abhor vivisection... it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.                          ~Dr. Charles Mayo, Mayo Clinic When the Galveston National...
Beware Trojan Horses!
"(Expletive deleted)...I'm gonna knock you out...you little (expletive deleted)...you hateful (expletive deleted) you." -- Senior Covance technician talking to a monkey he is restraining, 9/4/2004 Covance, a company that conducts bio-medical research on primates, has been at the center of controve...

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