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

Critter News

Completion date: 2006-03-20. 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? Biggest contracts: $232,500 with Army for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food.

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San Francisco Zoo Struggles After Tiger Attack

Critter News

Animal experts descended for investigations of their own, and employee morale sank to an all- time low. Insurance companies and the city settled lawsuits in conjunction with the fatal mauling and a 2006 attack of a zookeeper who was assaulted by the same tiger during a public feeding. Now, facing a $2.2

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why.

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Statistics

Animal Ethics

The previous best month (March 2006) had 1,730 visitors (55.8 In my view, the moral status of nonhuman animals is one of the most important issues that any of us will confront, and it confronts all of us. This blog had 2,325 visitors during November, which is an average of 77.5 visitors per day—which projects to 28,287.5

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Basis of this collection are the interdisciplinary lectures on Animal Rights which took place from April to October 2006 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (Germany). The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Is this moral? He says of this behavior, “It was a moral raven seeking the human equivalent of justice, because it defended the group’s interest at a potential cost to itself.&#. Heinrich seems to think it is. the Spring 2011 issue of YES!

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