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

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He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. 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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: In ā€œ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ā€ (Op-Ed, Dec. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Iā€™m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.