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Coast Guard Defends Medical Practice on Animals

Critter News

Live anesthetized goats have been used in Coast Guard training to treat combat wounds, but the agency could not verify if the video involved its personnel. The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt. Frederick, spokesman for the Atlantic Area, wrote in an email.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Of course, the CBC has sexier abbreviation: with the IWC (or iWC?) Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting). The first idea was, it is probably wounded by poachers. words “international water closet” come to mind. My mind, at least. The startled bird was looking at us.

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H. J. McCloskey on Punishment of Cruelty to Animals

Animal Ethics

Legislation forbidding cruelty to animals represents the use of coercion against the interests of the individual coerced, and not to further the interests of any other person (it may do so but need not to be justified). Yet it is legislation that few of us should wish to condemn as lacking in justification.

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