Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

She's accusing him of being a "monkey mutilator" and plans protests with other animal-rights activists at the UF football game today and at the researcher's neighborhood in the coming weeks. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates.

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Animal Research Florida Research AETA 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I know plenty of people still detest Vick for what he did, but if there are protesters at his games or outside the Eagles’ training facility, I haven’t heard about them. And in his cameo appearances in the two games since NFL commissioner Roger Goodell lifted his suspension, Vick hasn’t done anything to cause a commotion, either.

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Michael Vick Game The Humane Society Protest 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. For example, protesting the government’s food policies by wearing buttons, putting ads in the New York Times , or writing one’s congressman would seem to have greater educational value than not eating meat (question 2).

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