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Alicia Graef is a guardian and dog meat campaigner at In Defense of Animals. A lifelong animal lover and freelance writer with a Bachelor’s degree in animal and veterinary science, Alicia has covered issues relating to animals for more than a decade.
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Rethinking How We Refer to Nonhuman Animals
Language shapes perception. Using impersonal terms for sentient animals reinforces their marginalization and hinders recognition of their rights.
By Alicia Graef, Carrie P. Freeman and Debra Merskin in Agriculture | In Defense of Animals and Earth Food Life Project | English | April 2, 2024 | Guide to Changing How We Relate to Animals
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Alicia Graef is a guardian and dog meat campaigner at In Defense of Animals. A lifelong animal lover and freelance writer with a BS in animal and veterinary science, Graef has covered issues relating to animals for more than a decade.
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Navy Sonar Is Literally Scaring Whales to Death
Truthout | February | 2019
While scientists have already linked naval sonar with mass strandings of some whales, like beaked whales, they haven’t understood exactly what the cause was—until now. Turns out, it’s literally scaring them to death.
Half of the Great Barrier Reef Has Died Since 2016
Truthout | April | 2018
Scientists have known that Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is in trouble, but they are just starting to realize the extent of the damage that’s been brought on by climate change.
Giraffes Are Quietly Disappearing, but the US Can Help Stop Their Silent Extinction
Truthout | May | 2017
Despite their stature as the tallest land animal on earth, and status as one of the most iconic and beloved species in the world, giraffes have been quietly disappearing from the landscape at an alarming rate.
World’s Fastest Land Animal Is Now Racing Extinction
Truthout | January | 2017
Cheetahs are the fastest land animal on earth, but conservationists are raising serious concerns about a threat they can’t outrun: extinction.
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Words Count. That’s Why Animal Lovers Are Asking AP to Stop Calling Animals ‘Things’
Interview | 2021
Animals are not things. They are living, breathing, thinking, feeling beings. That’s why In Defense of Animals and Animals & Media are calling for an update to the Associated Press Stylebook’s recommendation on the use of personal pronouns for nonhuman animals.

They are joined by more than 80 respected leaders and scholars in animal advocacy and conservation who support this change, including renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, biologists Dr. Marc Bekoff and Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, and leaders of organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Mercy For Animals, Encompass, Animals & Society Institute, Animal Outlook, Nonhuman Rights Project, Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School, JaneUnChained News and other media organizations, such as Sentient Media, We Animals Media, the Journal of Critical Animal Studies and Animal Sentience journal.

See: www.idausa.org/OpenLetterAP
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