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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. Lawrence A. Mandelker New York, Oct.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

10,000 Birds

Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. They are under very heavy hunting pressure in Serbia and after 15 years of campaign , are finally off the shooting list. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. 933,000 in 1992-1993.

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A Little Win

10,000 Birds

There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. It can be difficult not to feel impotent and under attack from all sides.

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