Critter News

APRIL 17, 2012

leaving them to sometimes do procedures with nothing to numb the animals' pain. After eight years of fighting a strict law that virtually bans an anesthetic essential for their work, Russia's veterinarians say they have nearly reached the end of their tether. To work without anesthesia is to cut animals when they are conscious."

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly. But not so far as seriously to limit man's domination of the world.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

At issue in the case is the constitutionality of a decade old law passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1999. That law, U.S. The law also made it a crime to sell videos in which animals were tortured to death by being burned alive, as well as videos of illegal dog fights. I don’t think so. Code, Title 18.48

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? While cruelty to animals is a serious matter that should elicit widespread public outrage, efforts to reach the public through more serious means often fall on deaf ears in a world in which sex sells and there are both a war and an economic downturn. July 15, 2008

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