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Ringling Brothers Wins Court Case Over Elephant Abuse

Critter News

(FEI) at the outset of a nine-year-old suit brought by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) that culminated in a six-week trial in March.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

He differentiates those animals from what he calls "the cute animals" which is important and one of the few passages that I appreciated in this series. The fact that we care about--and fight for--animals based on how cute we have deemed them to be is disgraceful. But the question is how can we properly address that?