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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

Critter News

The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. After all, we cannot communicate with them in any meaningful way, and besides, from their behavior it seems clear that they don’t want to die.

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