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Australian Scientists to Study Animal Feelings

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Australian scientists have set themselves the challenge of understanding the minds of animals and what they are feeling. The challenge is to gain insights - in a scientifically rigorous way - into how animals' minds work," CSIRO scientist Caroline Lee said in a statement on Wednesday.

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How to Confront Cruelty

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I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It is the other way around, with grass-fed animals producing up to three times more methane. To replace factory-farmed meat without further tropical forest destruction is impossible. Barry Brook is a professor of climate change at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook New York, Nov.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. A duck farmed in a factory is part of nature as much as one that grew up on a pond, even if the particulars of its ecosystem are different. she’s Texan.

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