title: Open the doors to the public to promote support.
abstract: The author recently wrote about the animal use/animal rights battle and the increasing violence on the part of animal rights activists. He recounts being an outsider learning about the field and the issues at hand, lending insight into how the LAS field might better communicate with the communicators.
authors.affiliation: USA Today, 1000 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22229.
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authors.lastname: Friend