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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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This put Coffee in an impossible position - he needed to rehome the pythons because they were illegal in Florida, but the FWC was threatening to face him with additional criminal charges if he did so. The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. Chris Coffee did not commit any criminal acts.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

July 13, 2010 To the Editor: Today tens of thousands of American farmers don’t even own the livestock they raise, and the conditions they raise animals in are dictated to them by a handful of extremely powerful companies that are concerned only with the bottom line. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Although this hunting is in many cases illegal it is brazenly undertaken by hunters, and their victims (including endangered species) are commonly sold along the main roads of the country. million hectares in 2007.

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