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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. If you love your cats so much, why don’t you protect them? There is no moral ambiguity here. Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? It sickens me. They are safer and live far longer indoors.

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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. The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We