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Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. First, the 13th Amendment was designed to abolish human chattel slavery. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. 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.” Why the common law over legislation? Salem and Andrew N.

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Mexican Border Town Offers Tax Exemption for Euthanizing Dogs

Critter News

But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. Activists said what the government was doing qualified as “animal torture,” and they called for legislative reform. Sarcasm there of course. From Latino Fox News.

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Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act Passed House Judiciary

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It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter.

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Animal Welfare at Change.org

Animal Person

is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights. Ernst believes we don't have a right to use sentient nonhumans and all of her posts (and those of Alex Melonas, who also posts at animalrights.change.org) are unequivocal about animal use.

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Another Fake Animal Welfare Group

Critter News

They had a page with quotes from animal rights activists, but as I was reading, I noticed that they were very unfavorable quotes from such activists as Wayne Pacelle and Ingrid Newkirk. It was created in order to focus more resources on influencing legislation and defending the victims of animal and environmental extremism.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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He notes that “Beginning in the 1960s, for example, conservation was dominated by non-hunters whose legacy includes key legislation such as the U.S. This standing and the rights associated with it must be enforceable against the government so that the public can hold it accountable. required to determine those catch limits.

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