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

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" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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From Today's New York Times

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I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain. Even at Bob Bansen’s dairy, food comes at the cost of animal welfare. NEWKIRK President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., 10, 2012

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R. G. Frey on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

Nothing I have said in earlier chapters and nothing I will say in subsequent chapters is intended to deny this fact, which animal rightists correctly insist upon. But animals lack that reflective awareness which enables us to see our experiences and acts as our own (and thereby, of course, unlike animals, to be responsible for our acts). (

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R. G. Frey on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

The question of whether animals possess rights is once again topical, largely as a result of the recent surge of interest in animal welfare and in the moral pros and cons of eating animals and using them in scientific research.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But bulls are not cars, but rather living beings that experience pain and suffering. 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. Brad Goldberg President, Animal Welfare Trust Mamaroneck, N.Y.,

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

If a person is in a discipline in which he or she is attempting to understand a culture or wants to experience a culture, vegetarianism is nearly impossible. So, how you would respond a person like me who cares for animal welfare, consciously stays away from the worse meat he can, and eats it mostly for cultural reasons.