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The making of a new animal rights activist?
7:03PM ON
05/25/2008
BY
Dave Segal
State Rep. Kennedy is among several of my colleagues who enjoy gently ribbing me over my vegetarianism — though I need to take his opinion more seriously than most: He chairs the Corporations Committee, on which I serve. After a long night of refereeing sand-box wars between auto-body shops and liquor stores, we’ll often order out for dinner — and he controls the menu. (He also likes to give me hell for all of this blogging.)
So it’s with particular pleasure and pride that I read (and write) about his recent engagement with Jane Goodall, at the New England Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary:
Yesterday, the 74-year-old British ethologist, known by generations around the world for her work on chimpanzees’ behavior in Tanzania, made an unscheduled stop at Hopkinton’s New England Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary, a “retirement home” for parrots and other exotic species at the site of the former Chickadee Farms, a former poultry business that once produced some 33 million eggs a year.
“This was the end station before [the chickens] went to the supermarkets,” state Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy, D-Hopkinton, said yesterday as he was to address a crowd of friends, volunteers and parrot foster parents for the sanctuary’s official ribbon cutting.
Goodall is, of course, a vegetarian. (And hangs out in Rhode Island more rarely than she otherwise might — for refusing to visit Brown because of all the futzing around they do with monkeys’ brains over there.)
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