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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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" It affects the way we think about animals, and affects our views on animal cruelty. Snakes are highly specialized animals, who have undergone major evolutionary changes to their body & behavior to survive. But just because these are snakes, this event is getting very little coverage.

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Charming little events, really"—that's the impression one gets from Lukas's article. Self-interested health considerations aside, wouldn't it be better and fairer to celebrate and encourage "political meet-and-greet" events that are open to both men and women ? that don't involve the callous disregard of animal interests.

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From Today's New York Times

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If there were transparency to the public spectacle of bull riding, it would be clear that this is a frantically scared animal desperately trying to escape. Bull riding events in rodeos are notorious for using spurs, flank straps and electric prods to promote bucking and to control the bull.

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From Today's New York Times

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The Michael Vick case shed light on the disgrace of those who cause dogs to fight each other, an event often accompanied by drug sales and prostitution. The animals are forced to fight through beatings, starvation, being thrown at each other, being made to attack smaller animals thrown at them, and worse.

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From Today's New York Times

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Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land. Suppose that I and people like me reduce our meat consumption by 50 percent (an unlikely event). Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,