Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

By comparison, there were only 727 white male inmates per 100,000 white men. While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men. Anyone counseling a less militant approach is counseling self-defeat.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

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. Christopher Anne Affleck Cambridge, Mass.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. Force, coercion, and manipulation, by comparison, are inferior on each score. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ). Though to be historically accurate, the breaking wheel would be a better comparison. I wish there was a way to give some guns to Hen Harriers so that they could shoot back.

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