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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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Standing is often an issue in environmental lawsuits and advocacy groups have learned how to meet these requirements, sometimes including named individuals. CESAR had alleged that Dr. Zink would suffer professional and reputational injuries because FWS rejected his research, but the court found that inadequate.

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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

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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. But in my vegan advocacy that's the perfect place to begin (or end).

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.

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From Today's New York Times

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Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Brad Goldberg President Animal Welfare Advocacy Mamaroneck, N.Y., 30, 2007

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. It’s the same reason so many people now cut up their plastic six-pack holders — because the connection between their soda and the strangled sea lion becomes obvious, visual and intimate.

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