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New Blood Sport Involves.Canaries?

Critter News

This blood sport was so popular that it actually attracted audiences from Boston and New Jersey. Tags: animal cruelty blood sport Stupid. It is alleged that attendees would gamble on the outcome of the canary fights, put down their money, and then place two birds in a cage to see which would emerge the victor.

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Chock Full of Celebration

4 The Love Of Animals

Kyla Duffy is a foster parent for MidAmerica Boston Terrier Rescue and Breeder Release Adoption Service. Her business, Happy Tails Books , collects stories from people who have fostered and adopted dogs and compiles them into books that inspire others to get involved in the fight against animal cruelty. Ahh…life is good.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. One suspects that the SPCA and the American Humane Society have done more to stop cruelty to animals than vegetarians ever could. But my eating meat is not such a necessary condition for cruelty to animals.