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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Half of the sixteen German states already have some sort of animal rights provisions in their constitutions. Salem and Andrew N.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 And to voice your opposition to Kentucky’s new hunt proposal, write Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 jon.gassett@ky.gov I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Street, N.W.

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