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Scandal at Los Angeles Animal Shelter

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The majority of the unaccounted-for animals were dogs, Barnette said.” Barnette announced that her LA Animal Services staff has a “few bad apples”—not exactly the public description you expect from a City manager. “They were the young ones, the cute ones,” Barnette said. At a recent Encino Neighborhood Council meeting Ms.

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LA Times "Rodent of the Week" Simply PR for Animal Research

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"Rodent of the Week" supposedly highlights the "good things" that come out of animal research. But even this peppy little piece discusses the weaknesses of animal research. Tags: Los Angeles animal research. Clearly, a PR instrument. So why not just end it?

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National Justice for Animals Week

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From the better late then never category, the ALDF is having a National Justice for Animals Week to raise awareness about animal abuse. ALDF was founded in 1979 with the unique mission of protecting the lives and advancing interests of animals through the legal system. For more information, please visit www.aldf.org.

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Mexican Senators Look at Banning Bullfights

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Maria de los Angeles Moreno, who is sponsoring the bill, said. Several groups, including Spain's Plataforma Prou, the Mexican Association for Animal Rights, or Amedea, and the Proyecto Proteccion Animal, have been consulted on the bill, Moreno said.

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Dog Whisperer: Inside Puppy Mills

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Dog Whisperer: Inside Puppy Mills exposes inhumane conditions at these factory-like breeding operations, as Cesar joins an undercover mission with the animal welfare organization Last Chance for Animals (LCA).

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Legal Rights for Animals

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Here is a Los Angeles Times story about California's Proposition 2, which passed yesterday. On the one hand, it improves the lives of many farm animals. In the long run, measures such as this may make things worse for farm animals. I'm ambivalent about the proposition.

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Tom Regan on the Use of Animals in Science

Animal Ethics

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983]) There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. (

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