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.
Articles by Gayle Dean
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"(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...