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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries. Rowan, Public Policy Series [Washington, DC: Humane Society Press, 2003], 99-105, at 103 [endnotes omitted]) Unlike legislators, judges are at least formally bound to do justice.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Amy Joy Lanou Washington, May 21, 2007 The writer is senior nutrition scientist, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant. To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic.

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Combined Beats’ list

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Old Washington Cross Rd. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Old Washington Cross Rd. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Old Washington Cross Rd. Chomes–beach and mudflats. 24 Apr 2016. Chomes–beach and mudflats.

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Combined Beats’ List – July 2016

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Old Washington Cross Rd. Finca Hamadryas. 09 Jan 2016. Swainson’s Flycatcher – Myiarchus swainsoni.

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