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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. Those snakes felt the same pain & suffering that a bunch of tortoises would've felt in the same situation. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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She also explores pronouns and metaphors, and she even offers style guidelines and a thesaurus of "Alternatives to Speciesist Terms." In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. With all of her photos, she follows NANPA ethical guidelines, putting the welfare of birds and other wild animals ahead of any image. .

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