Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did you know this?

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Animal Person

MAY 3, 2009

What we couldn't see until her leg was shaved was that next to the deep wound is a large bloody bump of a wound. I was leaving the house on Friday and slipped on a filmy, shiny substance on the tile next to the ironing board, and my feet flew out from under me and I landed, cartoon-style, right on my tailbone.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

[T]here is another class of cases where the state is accorded the right to interfere with the individual when he is not interfering with any other person, namely, where cruelty to animals is involved.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 9, 2008

It was right on the curb and I was concerned about it getting run over. This little guy appeared weak and the wound on its head is very apparent. It was chewing on the remains of a little bird that had fallen out of its nest. My son and I put it in a box and took it to a ditch area behind our house.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. If we must eat conscious beings, we must show them respect. Bertha Rogers Delhi, N.Y., 21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products.

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