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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). Only a very narrow range of activities come under the sweep of this law, and all of them are illegal. Mandelker New York, Oct. Fred Engelhardt Alna, Me.,

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Proposed Changes to Migratory Bird Treaty Act – Part II

10,000 Birds

Thus, the Trump Administration’s four-year campaign to undermine the MBTA is almost certainly going to fail. Although there has been a split in the courts , “incidental take” has generally been considered within the scope of the MBTA, so harming or killing migratory birds has been illegal regardless of intent.

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