I spent last weekend, July 24-27, in the Washington, DC, area at the fifth annual Taking Action for Animals (TAFA) conference , hosted by the Humane Society of the United States. It was my third year at what HSUS says is the largest animal-advocacy conference in the country, which is easy to believe. There were workshops and panels on so many subjects that I couldn’t possibly list them all. The conference was also celebrity-heavy this year, so keep reading for details on that below. Some of