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Karen Dawn runs the nonprofit DawnWatch, and is the author of Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals (HarperCollins, 2008). She has written on animal issues for the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian.