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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While all 50 states and the District of Columbia have animal cruelty laws, the anonymity of the perpetrators in the videos severely frustrates enforcement efforts, so we need to ban the sale of these videos. We share your opposition to tinkering with the First Amendment.

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

10,000 Birds

Currently the Advocacy and Outreach Manager at Maine Audubon, he grew up in Maine and has a work history in conservation and public policy including seven years at the National Parks Conservation Association and volunteer work in communications for the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia.

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eBird Profile Pages and the Power of Suggestion

10,000 Birds

If you are tracking your life list, that’s not a difficult sell for the folks running eBird from Ithaca, New York. On eBird, the District of Columbia is part of the United States but Puerto Rico is not. The cartographic presentation suggested, of course, that one should aspire to a map without “gaps.”

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NYT Opens the Door to the Humane Myth

Animal Person

In this morning's New York Times editorial " There Is No 'Humane' Execution ," we have an imperfect yet nevertheless baby step toward acknowledgment of the HumaneMyth. Let's summarize and deconstruct: After a botched execution, Ohio adopted a single-drug formula to replace the three-drug cocktail previously used to kill people.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

As this Newsweek article and this Washington Post article report, when Gillette boarded a flight from Burlington, Vermont to New York on Oct. as well as the District of Columbia offer women no protection or very limited protection of their right to breastfeed their children.

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