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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Several countries, including Austria, Bolivia, Colombia, Greece, Peru, Britain and Paraguay, have already imposed or approved bans. Why is the United States lagging so far behind? When not performing, animals spend most of their lives caged or chained in tractor-trailers and railroad boxcars while traveling from city to city.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Beefy Morals

Animal Ethics

We interknit ourselves with every part of the English-speaking world," said the journal of the Cosme colony , in Paraguay, describing its Christmas celebration of 1898, "by the most sacred ceremony of over-eating." A nice moral bond of union, truly, between colonies and motherland!

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