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I am very passionate about stopping puppy mills. Many pet stores buy dogs from puppy mills and sell them to the customers by tricking them into thinking the dogs are from real breeders. The problem is that puppy mills in and of themselves are not illegal. I became active about 2 months ago with a group out of dallas that goes to all the the Petland Stores (a puppy store franchise) and protests every saturday. I have participated in a couple protests myself. The owners of these stores knowingly buy sick puppies from one of the largest puppy mill providers in the country, Hunte Corporation. The Humane Society has has Petland underinvestigation for violating laws on breeding animals. The majority of the dogs they sell are cramped in small cages, stacked upon eachother, with feces and multiple dogs surrounding them. These dogs are malnurished and have often times never been out of the cage to learn how to walk. The conditions are horrible. Tbe poor dogs have had no human contact and do not know how to interact with humans. Petland is also being taken to court for decieving their customers by making them believe they are buying healthy dogs from AKC registered breeders.

To find out more information about puppy mills and how to stop them there is a wesite called www.stoppuppymills.org

Here is the link to a youtube video of one of the protests I was in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0CNtxK4YXI



The readings I thought were sort of interesting. In FIFE chapter 18, Hooks probes her thoughts about spirituality and religions. According to her opinion, she believes the majority of religions are male-dominated; yet, many feminists find themselves searching for other ways to find peace within themselves away from the west. I personally think that feminists have no right to attack Christain-Judeo religions because religion is a very personal experience and as a Christian I disagree with the putting down those people who believe in Christ and worship within a patriarchal society. I understand that some denominations, like Catholic for example, are looked down upon by some feminists because men are the leaders in churches and only men can be priests and popes; however, you have to give those religions credit because these men practice abstinence and devote there lives to moral purposes and helping others. You can be a feminist and a Christian. I am living proof of that.
In chapter 19, Hooks talks about what a visionary feminist is. Visionary feminists look to the future were mass-based feminism is taught in schools and people need to be provided with more sources such as books and websites that give insight to the movement.
In chapter 9 of F-Word, the author takes about the lack of enthusiasm young women have in politics today and how women need to become more involved with the legislative process. The research says that the young generation is not interested in the political process and don’t want to be labeled as part of a party. In chapter 10, she continued on to talk about how there are not as many good candidates anymore. Much of the youth wants politicians to gear there campaign towards issues they care about. Young women have the impression that their one individual vote cannot make a difference and therefore what is the point in voting. In chapter 11 the author continues on by saying that we are part of a democracy and the beauty of this government is our ability to be active and not sit around watching the government make decisions for us.