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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

Critter News

Signed on 2002-08-15. Completion date: 2002-11-15. Aside from the moral issues involved in animal experimentation, why are US taxpayer dollars going to a company started by a man who went to jail for smuggling, and then transferred control of the company to his wife and mother? Taking place in MT. Signed on 2004-04-15.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries.

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Earth Day Lecture

Animal Ethics

She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Some of her notable publications include: “The Power of the Visual,” “Western Environmental Ethics,” “Vices of Inattention,” and “The Moral Responsibilities of Intellectuals.”

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. With successes like these, factory farmers do have cause for worry.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.) He writes as if what he used to do--and what he defends--is morally justifiable on its face, and it's just the details that might be questionable. We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni. Parque do Ibirapuera. 14 Mar 2016. Panama Flycatcher – Myiarchus panamensis. 24 Apr 2016. Ash-throated Flycatcher – Myiarchus cinerascens. La Paz, Mexico. 23 Apr 2016. Greensboro Bog Garden. 01 Jan 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni. Parque do Ibirapuera. 14 Mar 2016. Panama Flycatcher – Myiarchus panamensis. 24 Apr 2016. Ash-throated Flycatcher – Myiarchus cinerascens. La Paz, Mexico. 23 Apr 2016. Western Australia. 01 Feb 2016.

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