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PETA Protests Military's Testing on Pigs

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The protest happened on Wednesday. Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. I'm late on this one. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time.

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Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA

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Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. Tags: huntingdon animal enterprise protection act.

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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals

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A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.), Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty. The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia. sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group.

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Bloodless Bullfights No Longer Interest Me

Critter News

But within the last year, an animal cruelty investigation almost shut one down because spikes were being used to antagonize the bull. Next time, though, I might want to hook up with an animal rights group to protest. Tags: portuguese-americans california bullfighting. This was a clear violation of animal law.

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Dog Death Squads in China

4 The Love Of Animals

Make a donation to help IFAW end dog culls in China and to protect animals around the world from similar cruelty. Please send your message of protest today. And then please make a donation to help us continue our efforts to help save animals around the world from cruelty and exploitation. Thank you, Fred. Thank you, Fred.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 13 of 13

Animal Ethics

As I have suggested above, vegetarianism may have a protest or symbolic function. It might be suggested that although becoming a vegetarian as a protest against animal suffering or a way of committing oneself to helping the hungry people of the world is not a moral duty, it is still a moral act; it is a supererogatory act.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.