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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. Christopher Anne Affleck Cambridge, Mass.,

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On Bob Herbert and Direct Action

Animal Person

Something interesting happened when I read New York Times columnist Bob Herbert's article about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., By comparison, there were only 727 white male inmates per 100,000 white men. called " Anger Has Its Place."

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