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The Stupid PETA Fly "Controversy"

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Obama swats a fly, and the next thing you know, we hear of PETA is accused of "condemning" Obama. Here is a part of the blog post from Alisa Mullins : As we all know, human beings often don't think before they act. We don't condemn President Obama for acting on instinct.

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Southern Senator Stops Confirmation Over Animal Protection

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According to Michael Markarian from the Humane Society, Sunstein's confirmation is supposedly being held due to pressure from some agribusiness groups. He is the co-editor, for example, of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, which examines views both in favor and against animal law. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)

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Horse Slaughter Could Start Up Again in One Month

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Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.

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Send Obama a Message About Factory Farming

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The Humane Society makes it easy right here.

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Climate Change and Birds

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There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. And penguins.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

We interrupt regularly scheduled deconstructing, editorializing, commenting and ranting to bring you a letter from John Perkins : Dear Friends Speaking of Democracy, Honduras, and President Obama. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5)

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. It’s an effective introduction. This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning. What a horror!

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