Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. The brains of dolphins have similar folds, like the ones we have and are linked with human intelligence. What do you think?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Beyond being an amazing poem, however, “The Raven&# has the additional attraction of being the subject of an essay by the poet himself that explains the process he used to write it. One doesn’t have to wonder what Poe was thinking as he wrote “The Raven&# because he tells you in “ The Philosophy of Composition.&#

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture.

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