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

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. This is also present in birds & mammals, however it is not fully present in fish & amphibians.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade. And all of this trouble and suffering for what? Wild animals belong in the wild, and in their native habitats.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. FEDELE BAUCCIO Chief Executive, Bon Appétit Management Company Palo Alto, Calif., That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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Organic Food

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about organic fish. The Times argues that the concept of organic food does not apply to wild animals. Note that this debate is independent of the debate about the moral permissibility of eating fish. It is designed to distinguish between two types of farming.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 To the Editor: While Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article demonstrates our folly in oversimplifying solutions to many of our challenges and offers many viable solutions to sustaining our lifestyles in generations to come, she leaves out one very green practice: hunting and fishing. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J.,

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view.

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The True Costs of Eating Meat

Animal Ethics

Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics produced are fed to farmed animals to prevent (not treat) disease. Undigested antibiotics leach from manure into freshwater systems and impair the sex organs of fish. He thinks we would rightly "frame the matter as a dire political issue."

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