Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. From the AP.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2007
By abusing evolutionary biology in this way, we are able to read back the sophisticated conduct of people into the animal behavior that prefigures it. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. Shoot a few lions in the Selous and you protect a viable population of African Wild Dogs, a much more endangered species. You do a lot of good.
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