Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 9, 2009
6): I do not agree that “anyone with an appreciation for the First Amendment” must conclude that “crush videos” or videos of vicious dogfights are protected speech and that the federal law in question should therefore be struck down. If it cannot be made without sexually abusing children, it has no First Amendment protection.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
New York’s protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators. 9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute.
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
22, 2009 The writer teaches philosophy at Southern Methodist University and is the author of the forthcoming “ Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals.” How far do we go in protecting them? Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. David Peters New York, Nov.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 10, 2010
The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products. This is not unlike what we hear from financial institutions trying to track (or not) derivatives. It’s like trying to grip mercury.
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 6, 2009
It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. Victoria Bridgehampton, N.Y.,
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
According to a December 1970 article in the New York Times , there was a flock of 9 to 12 birds in Fort Tilden. Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Fortunately, there are some people working to protect the Scarlet Macaws of Honduras. Though Scarlet Macaws are threatened in Honduras there is hope that they will get protection and recover at least some of their numbers and former range. These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This Last Weekend of November 2009?
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