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Predators Paid to Pester Problematic Pest Birds

10,000 Birds

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

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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." Taylor in Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).

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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

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Here are some of my favorite quotes: "For thousands of years, farmers took their cues from natural processes. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34).