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

Critter News

Biggest contracts: $232,500 with Army for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food. . 49,620 with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food. Completion date: 2006-03-20. 42,000 with National Institutes of Health for Live Animals, Not Raised for Food. Signed on 2005-12-22.

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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. The zoo made major changes to its emergency-response procedures, including raising the wall of the tiger grotto, found to be about 4 feet shorter than what national standards recommend. Now, facing a $2.2

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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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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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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. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. Is this moral? Chimpanzees also dance at the onset of heavy rains and during violent gusts of wind.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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