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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

Reddit Animals

And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience." Whether we like to admit it or not, we (culturally) view animals on a "sentience spectrum." " It affects the way we think about animals, and affects our views on animal cruelty.

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On Keeping "Vegan" Pure

Animal Person

Kelly wondered whether the term "vegan" is " worth fighting for " given the latest trend of seemingly oxymoronish (waiting for that one to hit Webster's) terminology from the mouths of people who want to find a way to use animals, yet make it appear that they're not. Before 6pm, he doesn't eat animals. And they're all pretty obvious.

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On Winning Free Vegan Producst. and Twilight

Animal Person

The idea is to cultivate discussion in the forum in order to better suit visitors needing help from people like you on going vegan or understanding animal rights. You'll see these products showing up in the coming weeks, but the event starts now! The good ones eat only animals, which apparently isn't a big deal. Pretty cool, eh?

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On Humane Societies and Calf-Roping

Animal Person

Here's the backstory: Calgary has what they call a " western culture ," which essentially is their two word justification for abusing animals in the cruel and not-even-close-to fair venue of people-over-animals-who-don't-stand-a-chance. Safe, unharmed rodeo animals is an oxymoron). Not the rodeo.

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Earth Day Lecture

Animal Ethics

Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni, Ph.D.

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Birding – An Extreme Sport

10,000 Birds

In his book Tales of a Tribe , author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. It has all Big Five animals and a whole lot of other grumpy mammals. The following chain of events happened within a single second. One night while camping in the Himalayas, the birding friend hears a Satyr Tragopan calling.