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Hawking for Nighthawks

10,000 Birds

Especially as we were at the time about to experience a rapidly advancing tropical storm. Farmers keep their livestock in this wetland also. The vocal seedeaters remain prized possessions for many rural citizens here, some have heavy price tags around their necks; unfortunately confining them to a lifetime of incarceration.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

Critter News

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments. From the AP.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered.