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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

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troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. Did you know this?

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Sen. Franken to Introduce Bill to Increase Use of Service Dogs for Vets

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Al Franken (suck on that Bill O'Reilly) has introduced a bill to increase the number of service dogs for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But this program isn't just the right thing to do. My bill will help train a statistically significant number of dogs to measure the benefits to veterans with physical and emotional wounds.

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

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Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. What a lovely story, with such a great message.

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Mad about the Congo

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Right now, I am frustrated with the EU and the UN. I am no supporter of the Iraq War. I suppose I've come to this pretty late and gorilla people already knew that this trouble was brewing. The rebel forces in the Congo have controlled the gorilla sector of Virunga since 2007. How far can diplomacy really go? We got Saddam.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War. if we believe it's our right to do what we want with the lives of other animals. . . . Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. The government, which is currently lead by the right-wing National Party, has said that the legislation will not open up national parks, world heritage sites, ecological reserves or the like.

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Thomas E. Hill Jr on the Basis of Human Dignity

Animal Ethics

Second, notice that Kant, the deontologist, like John Stuart Mill, the consequentialist, distinguishes between the rightness of the act itself and the goodness or worthiness of the motive from which the act springs. To both philosophers, one can do the right thing for the wrong reason (as well as the wrong thing for the right reason).

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