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

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FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. The FWC then proceeded to kill the total 34 pythons using a bolt gun. After killing Coffee's pythons, the FWC then committed another criminal act. How would people react?

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From Today's New York Times

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In 2005, a survey commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare showed that the Chinese are similar to Americans in their concern for animals. In the long term, there is a glimmer of hope for China’s pigs.

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Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated.

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Think Bush Is a Pro-Animal Environmentalist? Think Again!

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Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S. The point, of course, is that there is no necessary connection between (1) a person's attitude toward animals or the environment and (2) his or her normative political theory.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

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People who care only about humans, for example, will not be persuaded by “old” vegetarian arguments, for those arguments rested on concern for animals. People who care about both humans and animals will have two reasons, rather than one, to abstain from meat—provided, of course, that the arguments are good ones. He is analyzing.

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From Today's New York Times

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Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. 22, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst dismisses companies and consumers who are embracing food production methods that provide more respect for animals and the environment as being motivated by “nostalgia.” SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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Animal Companions

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Choosing to live with animals rather than humans is a kind of masturbation: all pleasure, no responsibility. Those of us who live with, love, and provide for animals have no expectation of reciprocity, for we know that none is forthcoming. So who’s selfish: those who produce children or those who care for animals?

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