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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

Critter News

I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. Tags: oceans marine animals. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. But I may not find one.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants.