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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

Reddit Animals

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). If the FWC killed 35 tortoises on video, it would be on mainstream news. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

But the ease with which we can tell our stories and post our videos must not render us incapable of moral judgment and decency. Here's my question: What about, say, videos taken inside slaughterhouses? When is violence toward an animal in a video gratuitous? They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right?

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012).

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On Changes in What Americans Are Attending To

Animal Person

It's even more offensive than the condescension of believers, who are praying for poor me and my pointless life sans morality. And it's fantastic that there are films and vlogs and videos that deal with how we use animals--and that they are reaching the masses. about the eating of animals. Yes, we have a long, long way to go.

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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

Finally, "But the idea of how an animal meets its ultimate fate is usually ignored—until, of course, we see YouTube videos of sick cows being hauled to their deaths on bulldozers." Potent if symbolic? In other words, it's a scam. The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article.

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. Switching to a vegan diet will help you to live your life in accordance with your own deeply held moral values and will, thereby, help you to live an authentic life, i.e., a meaningful life of integrity.

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Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!

Animal Ethics

If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. Switching to a vegan diet will help you to live your life in accordance with your own deeply held moral values and will, thereby, help you to live an authentic life , a meaningful life of integrity.

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