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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.”

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The Dove Who Came In From the Cold

10,000 Birds

But in the end, being dead doesn’t protect an animal from mortality. It contains Andean Condors and Labrador Ducks , dinosaurs and mammoths, one of only two life-size models of a blue whale in the terrestrial world. Time and chance happeneth to museum specimens. Taxidermy is a bizarre art.

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