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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

Critter News

Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research.

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Phoenix Restaurant Serves Lion Burgers

Critter News

A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. But the burgers also attracted international attention and the scorn of animal rights activists, who picketed outside the restaurant. I feel I was misled by this."

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On Surreal Lobster Advocacy

Animal Person

Yesterday I received an e-mail alert from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) regarding " a coin operated game that uses live lobsters at the Royal Palm Ale House in Royal Palm Beach. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane."

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On Wipeout and Lion Burgers

Animal Person

there may be any number of restaurants serving game. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat. It's probably going to come down to culture , I thought. Lions aren't food in our culture. But that wasn't it either. The last paragraph states: In the U.S.

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On Winning Free Vegan Producst. and Twilight

Animal Person

The idea is to cultivate discussion in the forum in order to better suit visitors needing help from people like you on going vegan or understanding animal rights. Evidently I'm a bit late to the game. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. How does this work? That brings me to 7:30, when I watched Twilight.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Soo…if all the cranes look white in a light regime like this, how does an excited gunman tell which one is the endangered one?

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