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Good News for Greyhounds

Animal Person

We who want humans to stop using sentient nonhumans have few victories to celebrate. Here are a couple recent bits of good news. Rhode Island's only dog track, Twin River, will be "suspending" dog racing. Mooney Rhode Island. I urge everyone to read and circulate " Heartbreak at 45 mph " by Michael J.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

Such bills have been introduced in the past by elected officials in Rhode Island, Colorado, and Tennessee, and the first-ever bill for a statewide registry in California was today announced by its sponsor, State Senator Dean Florez. But it’s not just about how animal abusers end up also hurting or killing humans,” said Wells. “It

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. Although it didn’t make the news, the fifth crane was shot in Alabama– they just didn’t find her body until two weeks later. It flies on. I think not!

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