"She wrote a book in 1964, Animal Machines, which did for animals what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did for the environment."
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate (New York: Norton & Company, 2009), p. 62.
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Ruth Harrison
(24 June 1920 – 13 June 2000), was a British activist and author.
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