Critter News

APRIL 1, 2010

In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can result in a prison sentence, animal rights experts and politicians say street thugs have turned to dangerous-looking dogs to cow their victims. Tags: UK microchips legislation dogs.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty georgia blood sport legislation dog fighting us.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2010

2): We disagree with your contention that the First Amendment protects animal “crush” videos. Stevens , the Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law banning depictions of animal cruelty on the grounds of overbreadth. We believe our new legislation will pass constitutional muster. In United States v.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Make a donation to help IFAW end dog culls in China and to protect animals around the world from similar cruelty. In addition to working to stop this cull, IFAW is helping draft China’s first national animal welfare legislation that will prohibit culls like this. Tags: news people helping animals.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. Activists said what the government was doing qualified as “animal torture,” and they called for legislative reform. The solution? Sarcasm there of course. From Latino Fox News.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws. New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty. 30, 2007

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. The transport and subsequent slaughter of these animals is brutal. Last September, the House voted 263 to 146 to pass this legislation.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Four lions, rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from a Bolivian circus when the country banned the use of animals in circuses have a new home, and a life of luxury at the ARK 2000 sanctuary in Calaveras County. As with every animal at PAWS, we are committed to providing life-time care.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Victoria, who proclaims ”A holiday feast that’s cruelty-free is one fit for a queen;”. Here at Farm Sanctuary, we live with turkeys, so we know they are interesting and intelligent and have complex emotional lives like dogs, cats and other animals. Antoinette, who declares ”Let them eat squash!;”.

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