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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

Mice/rats in your house or business? When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. Call the pest control company. Alert: they’re lying. He seemed baffled.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer's ignorance also comes across in his discussion of anti-fur campaigns, so it's easy to miss this potentially good point (about some animal activists): But did you ever notice that we don't hear very much from them if anything about shoe leather?

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. In New Zealand at least public opinion is generally behind 1080.