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Lawsuit to Challenge Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

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A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. government Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of a rarely used law they say treats them like terrorists if they cause a loss in profits for businesses that use or sell animal products.

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Dutch Whale Denied Freedom; Must Go to Spanish Amusement Park

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Here's an excerpt from the online Boston Globe. A Dutch court had suspended the government's export permit after an animal rights coalition presented a plan to release her to the wild in stages. Unfortunate, but the court decided she would not survive being returned to the wild.

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Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research

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This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! She lives at Indigo Hill, an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio with her husband, Bill Thompson III, their children Phoebe and Liam, and their Boston terrier, Chet Baker.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

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It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. It would be a way of protesting present practice, a way of saying, “I disagree strongly with the treatment of animals used for food.” In other contexts a similar phenomenon has occurred.