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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. Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. If the FWC killed 35 tortoises on video, it would be on mainstream news. The Boa was still alive & in pain 20 minutes after they crushed its skull.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. All animals would be kept in battery conditions and the righteous vegetarians would exert no economic pressure on farmers to change their ways. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason.

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