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Articles with Animal rights
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The shifting spectrum on animal rights
My walk to and from work each day takes me through land administered by the Natural Resources Trust of Easton. It was there I met the deer.
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Leave the poor stickleback alone
It’s not easy being a stickleback.
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Birds and bees and Bambi
The week before last, the Humane Society of the United States sponsored a scientific conference in East Windsor, New Jersey, that considered among other things the use of contraception in wildlife management. Participating scientists hope to find practical ways to chemically regulate the fertility of wild mammals.
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Jenifer, frogs, and a reverence for life
This is a story in several parts. Chapter 1: Jenifer Graham, a 15-year-old high school student in Victorville, California, refuses to dissect a frog in biology class.
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Rights of animals
When I was a boy growing up in Tennessee I once snitched my uncle’s .22 rifle and went hunting with my friends. My first shot brought a gray squirrel tumbling down through the branches of a tree. The squirrel lay on the ground at my feet, its belly pierced by a neat red hole, convulsed with pain. I watched, paralyzed by horror at what I had done, until one of my friends dispatched the squirrel with the butt of his rifle.