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A
Bloody Fight to the Death
Elizabeth Nash,
The Independent, feature — December 2004
Sixty-five
years on, in a development that would have astounded Hemingway,
a campaign is growing in Spain to take the kill out of the corrida;
to remove the bull from public view in its last moments of
agony...
Anti-Animal
Testing Group Optimistic for Bush Second Term
Ray Greek, M.D., Americans for Medical
Progress, commentary — November 2004
I
predict the following: pharmacogenetics will be
implemented by the FDA; pharmaceutical companies
will ask the FDA to remove the animal testing requirements
because they are ineffective and expensive; and
through enacting tort reform, all the pieces will
coalesce for the removal of animal testing in drug
development...
Campus
Cruelty
Heather Moore, Impact Press, feature — October-November
2004
The
amount of funding a professor brings to a university
and the number of papers he or she publishes, no
matter how frivolous or irrelevant, influences whether
he or she becomes a full professor and receives tenure.
But often the professors' success and the students'
so-called education come at the expense of countless
animals...
Animal
Law is Emerging as Specialty Across Nation
Michael Kiefer, The Arizona Republic,
feature — August 2004
And
although attorneys are not giving up lucrative careers
in real estate or corporate law to represent animal
rights, they are increasingly finding that cases
with animals are loaded with ethical and emotional
traps, whether it's a case of dog bites man, a couple
suing each other for custody of their beloved pet,
or a neighbor suing the lady next door who has 50
cats...
Pinoy
Kasi: Philosophy and Animal Welfare
Michael Tan, Inquirer News Service, feature
— August 2004
All
said, this philosophizing probably boils down to
a hope that in understanding our relationships with
animals, it may be easier for us to understand ourselves
and our own existence...
Humanity
Can't Be Forgotten, Even When Slaughtering Poultry
Wayne Pacelle, HSUS, commentary — July
2004
The
humane slaughter law [1958] exempted poultry.
And that exemption stands to this day. More
than 9 billion chickens and turkeys are slaughtered
every year — 95
percent of all animals killed for food in the United
States — and they are entirely at the
mercy of major chicken processors...
Helping
Animals Through Legislation
Michelle Rivera, essay— 2004
Ten
years ago there was nobody on staff assigned to animal
issues, now, each and every legislator has one on
staff! That’s progress...
They
Have No Hope But Us:
The Tsunami of Suffering of Animals in Labs
Michael Budkie, Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN), Investigation — 2004
The
psychological torture of isolation is interrupted only by the trauma of human
handling, and the experience of becoming an unwilling victim in an experiment...We
are not supposed to know that research facilities are places of intense suffering...
Assume
No Animal Products Are Safe
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns,
feature — February 2004
Talk
about "isolated cases" is nonsense regardless.
Agribusiness is global, and for this reason alone
the synergies of animal and human diseases elude
exactitude...
Jury
Values Dog at $30,000
All-Care Animal Referral Center,
verdict — January 2004
...an
Orange County jury found Veterinarian Craig Bergstrom,
D.V.M. of All-Care Animal Referral Center guilty
of veterinarian malpractice, and awarded Plaintiff
Marc Bluestone $9,000 in reimbursement for the
overpayment of veterinarian bills, and $30,000
for the unique value to him of his dog, “Shane"...
The
Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.
Eric Schlosser, New York Times, feature — January
2004
The
Agriculture Department has a dual, often contradictory
mandate: to promote the sale of meat on behalf of
American producers and to guarantee that American
meat is safe on behalf of consumers. For too long
the emphasis has been on commerce, at the expense
of safety...
Animal
Welfare Law and Animal Rights Law
Adam P. Karp, Esq. definitions
Animal
Welfare Law confers benefits upon nonhuman
animals indirectly, based on their relationship to
a human being... Animal
Rights Law recognizes protection, entitlements,
and standing for the animal based on the animal’s inherent
dignitary interests as a sentient being...
Cruelty
to Animals
Senator Robert C. Byrd, United
States Senate, speech — July
2001
Federal
law is being ignored. Animal cruelty abounds.
It is sickening. It is infuriating. Barbaric
treatment of helpless, defenseless creatures
must not be tolerated even if these animals
are being raised for food — and even more
so, more so...
Beyond
the Law:
Agribusiness and the Systemic Abuse of Animals Raised
for Food or Food Production
David Wolfson, excerpts — 1999
Specifically,
29 states have enacted laws that create a legal
realm whereby certain acts, no matter how cruel,
are outside the reach of anticruelty statutes
as long as the acts are deemed "accepted," "common," "customary," or "normal" farming
practices...
Memo
Distributed to Meat Inspectors by U.S. Department of
Agriculture
Harper's Magazine, feature — April
2003
If
you have unidentifiable material on the carcass and
you are unsure what to do, you are instructed to
apply a RETAIN/REJECT tag on the leading side of
the carcass. It is unnecessary to cause significant
loss of production. You don't have to decide what
the unidentified material is, where it came from,
or any remedy. That is outside your scope of work...
Rights
From Wrongs:
A Movement to Grant Legal Protection to Anmals is Gathering
Jim Motavalli, commentary — March-April
2003
The
fight to give animals legal rights barely registers
on the environmental agenda, but perhaps it should.
This isn’t simply an endless philosophical debate
but a gathering global force with broad implications
for our planet’s future, including how we
use our natural resources...
Kensington's
Death on Videotape
Audio transcript of Kensington's torture — 2001
The
cat was hung by its neck from a telephone cord, then
impaled on a wall. An
unidentified voice: "I want to cut open its belly
while it's still alive and watch everything moving
around"...
Oprah's
Battle with Ranchers Became First Amendment Cause Celebre
David
L. Hudson, Jr., First Amendment Center, commentary — August
2001
It was such a big case because of who Oprah
was and also because it dealt with such an important
matter of public concern — food safety...
Love
Animals? Hate Politics?
Dr. Rich McLellan, essay — 2000
The
nuts and bolts that hold together the machinery that
perpetuates animal domination are the very laws written
by the politicians we elect to public office...
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