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

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The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. This makes it much harder for people to have empathy for snakes, even though snakes have retained all the biological features that are important to consider for animal ethics (just like turtles and lizards).

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Philadelphia, PA Find out how you can become an active participant in national efforts to protect farm animals from abuse at this one-day conference. Designed to raise awareness about current farm animal issues and campaigns, this unique event offers educational opportunities for activists of all experience levels.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

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The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. Would it be permissible to eat them?

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique. When breast-feeding is not possible, commercial soy formulas are nutritionally adequate. Aside from the colic-inducing proteins that bother many children on cow's milk formulas, cow's milk is a common cause of allergies.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As Running time: 12 Minutes.