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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries. Rowan, Public Policy Series [Washington, DC: Humane Society Press, 2003], 99-105, at 103 [endnotes omitted]) Unlike legislators, judges are at least formally bound to do justice.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. He writes as if what he used to do--and what he defends--is morally justifiable on its face, and it's just the details that might be questionable. The tiresome Hitler was a well-known vegetarian comment is included in this segment, but I found it irksome long before that.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Amy Joy Lanou Washington, May 21, 2007 The writer is senior nutrition scientist, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant. To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic. Children need protein.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. Washington. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Wisconsin.

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Collaborative list – April 2019

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Bajada Washington Trail, Tucson, Arizona, US (32.278, -111.199).

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Collaborative list – May 2019

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Bajada Washington Trail, Tucson, Arizona, US (32.278, -111.199). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

10,000 Birds

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Bajada Washington Trail, Tucson, Arizona, US (32.278, -111.199). PN Los Quetzales–KM 76, Providencia road.

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