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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Worry Under the Big Top as Mexico City Moves to Ban Circus Animals ” (news article, June 15): Mexico City joins the growing list of cities that have banned the exploitation of animals in circuses. Why is the United States lagging so far behind? JENNIFER O’CONNOR Staff Writer, PETA Foundation Norfolk, Va.,

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Beefy Morals

Animal Ethics

We interknit ourselves with every part of the English-speaking world," said the journal of the Cosme colony , in Paraguay, describing its Christmas celebration of 1898, "by the most sacred ceremony of over-eating." A nice moral bond of union, truly, between colonies and motherland!

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