Critter News

JULY 6, 2009

I worry it won't pass the DC district court for some wacky reason. Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. From the LA Times.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

She previously wrote on 10,000 Birds about birding in the Washington DC cherry blossoms. Oblivious to its human surroundings, the egret was carefully picking its way down the grass between the hotels and the sand. Her blog can be found at [link]. Normally when someone says “wedding,” they don’t also think “birds.”

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." In the author's words.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. Lovely quote. It's all about private property, not living things.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

At the same time, or ideally shortly thereafter, the science will convince and stimulate popular writings to reach a broad audience, one that eventually enlist the general public to demand reasonable, justifiable changes that will benefit human society, which is part and interdependent with nature. (p. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

What if consumers have genuinely been paying attention and have realized that animal products aren't that healthy, are an environmental disaster (the way most are produced) and not sustainable and are a blatant, direct signs of the largest and longest injustice in human history?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

And as long as society awards personhood to non-autonomous humans, such as the very young, the severely retarded, and the persistently vegetative, then it must also award basic rights, as a matter of equality as well, to nonhuman animals with practical autonomy. Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap. Salem and Andrew N.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. … Extinction is forever. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 And to voice your opposition to Kentucky’s new hunt proposal, write Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 jon.gassett@ky.gov I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Street, N.W. I think not!

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