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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. For an attorney, that's awfully weak.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

On the contrary, it is unwittingly to voice the very prejudices it has been the object of the present work to identify and refute. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question.

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Foie Gras to Be Banned in California

Critter News

But for seven hours on Friday night, at a restaurant appropriately known as Animal, three chefs presented an eight-course meal that was nothing short of a glorification of this soon-to-be-outlawed delicacy. Excerpted from The New York Times. In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California.

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On Wipeout and Lion Burgers

Animal Person

They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions.

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