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EU Backing Cloned Animal Products

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It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? If they are cloned solely for the products they provide, will it be more difficult to argue for their welfare as living creatures? From the Daily Mail.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.