Animals’ best friend
Re “It’s her job to raise a squawk,” Column One, April 20
Thank you for the article about Jennifer Fearing.
This accomplished woman, a girl-next-door, is the true face of animal advocacy in this country.
Animal activists are not the radical underground, nor are they the terrorists some UCLA professors claim are picketing and handing out fliers in Westwood. Animal activists are your neighbors, your co-workers and, yes, like Fearing, sometimes sorority sisters.
They are community organizers, shelter volunteers and professionals. Some go to church or synagogue. They just happen to care deeply about the voiceless -- the constituency sometimes called “our poorest brothers.”
Fearing may represent the best of a new generation of political movers and shakers, but she is also a typical, garden-variety animal-rights advocate.
Danielle Stallings
Camarillo
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