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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Anderson, famous for slow-motion beach running scenes in the hit 1990s lifeguard TV show, wrote to R.C.

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What makes a good bird guide?

10,000 Birds

I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. Still, I do remember a long drop loo in one national park in central India, with an inscription: “There are no guarantees that you will see the tiger. I remember one guide in the south of Africa.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

We are an animal welfare group working for animals in India— www.hopeandanimal.org we have tie up with a US based company for fund raising—If you buy pet products from www.petmedusa.net 10% of sale proceeds are donated to our organisation—Pls Bid and buy the product. with regards, Praveen Ohal

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world.

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On Radical Abolitionism and Guilt

Animal Person

And I don't think that converting one person at a time to veganism via my spectacular baking or my blogging is going to make up for the people of China and India rapidly increasing their consumption of animals. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Apparently, the Greater Coucal is associated with some superstitions – in India, seeing one is believed to be auspicious, and in some areas, eating the flesh was regarded to help with illnesses such as tuberculosis. This bee-eater is another bird species with a somewhat underwhelming work ethic. So, what you see here is a female.