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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

sexual abuse, and animal fighting as well as neglect (such as hoarding). ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Specifically, the increasing meat-consumption trend could be reversed if consumers paid the true price for meat. 5, 2008 To the Editor: Kudos to The New York Times for covering the much-neglected connections between meat and climate change. Human beings, like dogs, are omnivores. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.