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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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“Standing” is a legal doctrine that requires a plaintiff to have a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy, as required by Article III of the Constitution. Standing is often an issue in environmental lawsuits and advocacy groups have learned how to meet these requirements, sometimes including named individuals.

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On Surreal Lobster Advocacy

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The e-mail continues: " ARFF contends that lobsters suffer tremendously when they are relegated to tiny tanks and subjected to loud noises, prodding and pulling by a mechanical claw, and prolonged starvation. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane."

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On Atheism and Veganism, Part Deux

Animal Person

Next I'd like to acknowledge the Norm Phelps article Gingerlks ( thanks! If I'm speaking with an atheist I might use my personal thought process in my vegan advocacy, but if someone wants to believe there is a god, and that belief is helpful to them, and they're not hurting anyone because of that belief, I have no problem with that.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. April 9, 2009 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns, an advocacy group.