Wayne Pacelle on "The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend them"

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Thu, 04/28/2011 - 11:00am to 11:30am
Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them

The guest is Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the United States, and author of the new book, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them. Pacelle will discuss the deep links of the human-animal bond as wll as the conflicting implulses that have led us to betray this bond through widespread and systemic cruelty to animals.

Wayne Pacelle has been with the Humane Society of the U.S. for seventeen years. He has taken a special interest in law reform and has been a leading strategist in getting animal protection laws enacted by the direct action of the electorate.

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