Critter News
MAY 23, 2011
An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record. From the Montreal Gazette.
Critter News
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Animal rights groups are seeking leave to appeal to the high court in their ongoing fight to have Lucy the elephant moved to a warm-weather U.S. In their Supreme Court application, the groups say private citizens have a right to seek legal remedies to ensure that governments enforce animal protection laws.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 7, 2015
To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.'
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
This standing and the rights associated with it must be enforceable against the government so that the public can hold it accountable. Interpretation of these rights must be adaptable to contemporary concerns, such as biodiversity and species extinction. All three are impaired when the basis of public debate is a myth.
Animal Ethics
JULY 22, 2008
To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time.
Critter News
JULY 19, 2009
Sunstein is a Harvard law professor who has written about animal protection issues. He is the co-editor, for example, of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, which examines views both in favor and against animal law.
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