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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

10,000 Birds

I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. There is no moral ambiguity here. Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? It sickens me. I have been rescuing animals, both wild and domestic, since I was a child. They are safer and live far longer indoors.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

But now the blinders are coming off, and it is time Leftists take their own off and wake up to the fact of the ethological revolution and its profound implications for human identity, our moral relationships to nonhuman animals, and to politics. Humanized' mice speak volumes (scienceblog.com). Why can we talk?

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. And thanks to the efforts of groups such as PCRM, that ample use isn't so ample anymore.