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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

Critter News

Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. If so, no moral objection based on the killing of animals could be raised to the eating of meat.

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