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How to Confront Cruelty

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I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Tags: animal cruelty books. Sounds interesting. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own?

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

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Signed on 2005-08-12. Completion date: 2005-10-17. Signed on 2005-12-22. 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? Signed on 2004-04-15.

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Ruppy the glowing puppy

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Lee was also part of a team that created the first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005. per cent of embryos came to term) and has moral issues attached as well. Tags: news. Byeong-Chun Lee and his team created the dogs by cloning fibroblast cells that create a red fluorescent gene. Unfortunately, cloing is not efficient, (just 1.7

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