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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

New York’s protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators. Deborah Dubow Press Washington, Sept.

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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