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Hurting animals and repenting later.

Reddit Animals

But now, I would give my life to protect them. It’s gotten to a point where it’s a constant buzz that keeps reminding me of my cruelties howsoever trivial they were. Have any of you guys here had similar experiences? Has anyone, as a child, ever hurt animals like pelting stray cats and dogs with stones? Please help/suggest.

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Support the Great Ape Protection Act

Critter News

End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. It's unconscionable.

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IFAW rescuers have mobilized to Japan

4 The Love Of Animals

Collectively, the group has the greatest amount of animal rescue experience in the world and will be in a position to provide subject matter experts and advise local groups who are planning larger recovery projects. will be channeled into Japan. This will allow IFAW and NARSC colleagues to identify long-term animal relief projects in Japan.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Dr. Dean Ornish has also documented the heart-protective effects of plant-based diets, as has Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic. Castelli adds: “Vegetarians not only outlive the rest of us, they also aren’t prey to other degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, strokes, etc., that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”