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It’s a boy! Fort Worth Zoo welcomes endangered baby elephant

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submitted by /u/Scary-Kangaroo7775 [link] [comments].

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Texas May Allow Aerial Hunting of Wild Pigs

Critter News

A state lawmaker is proposing to allow ordinary Texans with rifles and shotguns to shoot the voracious, tusked animals from helicopters. Sid Miller of the Fort Worth area wants to bring more firepower to the task by issuing permits to sportsmen. Now state Rep.

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Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism

Animal Ethics

I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. Animals, being nonrational, have no intrinsic moral significance. By the way, one answers questions and solves problems. One does not answer problems.

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Housekeeping

Animal Ethics

Here is what it says on the editorial page of my local newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram : LETTERS POLICY Verification: Letters must have a printed full name, address and daytime phone number. As unbelievable as it may sound, I still get comments without full names. Can you people read?

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Animal Ethics

Perhaps I should have gotten the house number and called the Humane Society or Fort Worth Animal Control. Now, because of the man's anger at my officiousness, I'm afraid. It was a no-win situation. What would you have done? I considered this, but decided that nothing would be done.