Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. Five activists represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act be struck down as unconstitutional because it has a chilling effect on lawful protest activities I wish them luck!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Critter News

MAY 23, 2011

An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record. That sucks. From the Montreal Gazette.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain). Botibol” (p.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators.

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Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

And though I did almost all of the work at the start, I'm frankly not sure why I'm even involved right now. The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of (esp. as provided for and organized by legislation or social effort. Of the 20 cats TNR'd so far I've had to pay about $150. See also sense 5. TAYLOR Eng.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. Good, I say. Turns out, from what I could find, not particularly ceremonious.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Neal Barnard, Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life , p. As the Newsweek story indicates, 38 states have passed laws giving women the right to breastfeed in any public or private place she’d otherwise be allowed to be. The legislators in these 12 states ought to be ashamed. Breast-feeding does just that.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

And, let’s face it, he is right. Baicich takes us through the history of wetlands and waterfowl conservation policy, planning, and legislation (much, but not all seemingly motivated by the desire to conserve enough habitat so that waterfowl hunters will have a wealth of targets) and offers nine recommendations for what we can do.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 2, 2006

It is chilling in its narrowness, because it targets a single group of political activists, namely, animal rights activists. It makes certain conduct criminal if engaged in by animal rights activists, but not criminal when engaged in by other activists, say, by anti-abortion activists. That’s right. The Senate Bill S.

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