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PETA Targets Live Octopus Meals.in New York!

Critter News

Octopus are highly intelligent creatures.not that ANY creature should suffer like this. PETA is arguing that this practice violates New York's anti-cruelty laws. Tags: octopus New York animal cruelty restaurants PETA. It's apparently a practice around the world. This link has a video with some examples.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

In March, Gutierrez changed his story and agreed to “cooperate with prosecutors,” so his 15 counts of animal cruelty were dropped to one. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law? Who suffers for these crimes? The innocent birds and the decent, law-abiding people who cared for them.

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Brooklyn Woman Assaults Two ASPCA Agents

4 The Love Of Animals

Responding to an anonymous tip about a neglected cat, the Humane Law Enforcement agents arrived at Stewart’s residence to find a seven-week-old, one-pound orange tabby with his whiskers cut off and a serious injury to his right front paw. As of now, he might lose his paw and is suffering from a rib fracture as well.” Do you Twitter?

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering. Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.” Allocation of Wildlife by Law – Public participation is essential in development of wildlife management policies. All individuals share the costs of conserving wildlife.

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H. B. Acton (1908-1974) on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

This is the question whether the wrongness of cruelty to animals depends in part upon the animals' suffering, or whether it does not depend upon that at all, but only upon the bad effects upon human beings of cruelty to animals, and upon the badness of the human states of mind that such cruelty involves.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,