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Predators Paid to Pester Problematic Pest Birds

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Organizations such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals argue, though, that this success comes at a steep price: captivity for the birds of prey, and potential collateral damage when raptors occasionally catch up to their target birds and, well, do what raptors do. Of course, birders may focus on another potential drawback.

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Coast Guard Defends Medical Practice on Animals

Critter News

The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt. Frederick was responding after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called on the Pentagon to stop the practice. Frederick, spokesman for the Atlantic Area, wrote in an email.

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Plant Rights

Animal Ethics

For example, Charles Patterson wrote in Eternal Treblinka —a book specifically endorsed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals—that "the road to Auschwitz begins at the slaughterhouse." Some ideologues even compare the Nazi death camps to normal practices of animal husbandry.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

This should come as no surprise as he is on the board of Farm Forward -along with John Mackey and Bruce Friedrich-the latter of whom figures prominently in the book as does his employer, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34).