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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. Navy wiped out every single rat on Midway Atoll, seabirds flourished afterwards. The number of bird lives saved as a result of the rat removal operation can easily be estimated to be into the millions by now.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. Many (though not all) animal lovers kind of suck too, including myself. Chefs place live lobsters in pots of boiling water.