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Help. My feelings towards animals

Reddit Animals

Hello, my whole life I have had dogs, cats, goats, and sheep, and I am a very big animal lover however recently it’s like gone to the next level and if an Animal is hurt or homeless or dying, a slow death I FEEL SO INCREDIBLY BAD. it’s so bad. it’s so bad.

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EU Backing Cloned Animal Products

Critter News

It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. Tags: europe cloning farm animal welfare. From the Daily Mail.

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Group Seeks to Ban Chinese Fur Trade with Australia

Critter News

The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.

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Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

10,000 Birds

Due to mass wolf poisonings in the 1960s and the 1970s, Griffon Vultures in Serbia suffered a dramatic population crash. There are very few sheep in the meadows and too few animals end up dead in the open, where scavengers can get them. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.).

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. No argument here. It's just not right.

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On Honoring Living "Things"

Animal Person

William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My The big change, of course, was my realizing that I didn't feel any remorse for having to eat animals and plants to live.

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J. Baird Callicott on Domesticity

Animal Ethics

One of the more distressing aspects of the animal liberation movement is the failure of almost all its exponents to draw a sharp distinction between the very different plights (and rights) of wild and domestic animals. Domestic animals are creations of man. This is equally true of caged wild animals.