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A Win-Lose Proposition for Farmers and Consumers

Animal Person

People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. Along with the rest of the country. And that's being done as a favor of sorts, a gift to them by the benevolent NASDA.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., That is never humane.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We But the question is how can we properly address that?

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. I have always supported our wildlife management organizations for the hard work they do and for their dedication to wildlife protection. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. Treaties trump state laws.