Animal Studies

companion animals: 'The little dog lost at sea' - The Week; The Ethical Dog: Scientific American; What Your Dog's Thinking - Guess what: When he slobbers all over your face, that's not love; Video of Animal Abuse Prompts Raid of Pet Supplier | User Submitted; Netflix: Mine; Dog’s Anglican communion leaves tongues wagging | Holy Post | National Post; Rabid Bali Dogs Kill 78 at Tourist Hotspot - Island dangerously short of vaccine; Dog Facts | Random Facts; 20 Moments In Strange Pet Walking; Unleashed: Dog that changed Alabama cruelty laws dies - A blog for animal lovers on pets, dogs, cats, shelters and animal rescue - baltimoresun.com; The Danish craze that has growing numbers of animal lovers hopping on the bandwagon | Mail Online; From the Photo Desk; Dogs Distinguish Growls « Pet Project; 'Pet Hoarding' Surges in US; Stuck Camel Saved by Oregon Firefighters

research animals: The Unraveling of Homogeny § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM; Skin Deep: Cosmetic Safety Reviews; In U.S., Few Alternatives To Testing On Animals - washingtonpost.com; Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building | The Onion - America's Finest News Source; Monkeys Fattened Up to Study Human Obesity - NYTimes.com

farm animals: Dan Barber's foie gras parable | Video on TED.com; BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Livestock bugs 'surviving longer'; Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary; Obama Caves in to Agribusiness; English school kids vote to slaughter lamb they raised from birth; Presentation_David.pdf (application/pdf Object); EUROPA - Animal Health & Welfare - Animal Welfare - International; Choices Article - Animal Welfare; Just In Case You Think It's Okay to Eat Eggs, Even "Cage-Free"... // Current; Rotten eggs, stampeded rain forests, and more | Grist; News | Breaking News | Feedstuffs; FASS Science Policy » animal welfare; Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, a New Documentary from Tribe of Heart, the Award-winning filmmakers of The Witness; frontline: modern meat | PBS; UEP adds to animal welfare guidelines | News | Breaking News | Feedstuffs; 'Peace' Chickens Developed to Avoid Farm Cannibalism; The Meatrix Films; A return to low-stress cattle herding | freep.com | Detroit Free Press; WashingtonView » Blog Archive » Animal Welfare Should be Based on Science, Experience; Andrew Purvis on chicken farming | Life and style | Observer Food Monthly; Is Meat Murder? For These Students, the Question Is Personal - Buildings & Grounds - The Chronicle of Higher Education; Chagall in Postville | Jewcy.com; Animal Advocates Surpass NRA In Political Influence - Forbes.com; Animal Factory - A dramatic exposé of factory farms and the devastating impact they have on human health, the environment, and the economy; Enviropig - Commercialization & Regulatory | University of Guelph; The United States Agricultural & Food Law and Policy Blog: Tenth Circuit Upholds Lower Court Ruling in OK v. Tyson Case; Organic Eggs Don't Always Come From Happy Chickens | Sustainable Food | Change.org; One sick chicken | Grist; Florence mosque defaced with bacon - WMBFNews.com | Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC | News, Weather, Sports; Fear of a Vegetarian Planet: Why the Beef Industry Is Freaked Out By a Kids’ Contest | BNET; Fantastic Portraits of Farm Animals - My Modern Metropolis; BBC News - New Zealand mourns Shrek the sheep

food and diet: Critical review of 'eating animals'; A Film That Will Change Hearts and Save Lives--And How You Can Help | Animals | Change.org; For Foer, Meat Is Murder ... And Worse : NPR; food ethics as ethical imperialism?; TV chef dropped for cat recipe comments - CNN.com; Scientists grow bacon from stem cells | MNN - Mother Nature Network; The 'Veggie' Option: As Bad as Mystery Meat - Food - The Atlantic; The Cultured Meat Blog; philosophy bites: Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism; BrooklynVegan; Veganism and Eating Disorders Are Sometimes Linked: Vegans Can Hide Anorexia, Bulimia; YouTube - Eating Animals; Vegetarianism is not contrary to Arab culture | Joseph Mayton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk; Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter : NPR; 2010-05-25-Veganism.png (PNG Image, 850x282 pixels); Organic Eggs: Study Says They're Not Healthier Than Regular Eggs; James E. McWilliams - Vegetarianism is a major step for environmental change - washingtonpost.com; frontline: diet wars | PBS; Food industry dictates nutrition policy - CNN.com; All We Can Eat - Q&A: David Kirby, author of 'Animal Factory'; Food - Salon.com; Why Big Ag Won't Feed the World - The Atlantic Food Channel; If only poor people understood nutrition! | The Fat Nutritionist; Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com; Just Food / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com; BOOK REVIEW: Just Food by James E. McWilliams | Inhabitat; 10in10diet; Seven Food Products Banned in Europe Still Available in the U.S. - DivineCaroline; Rats Starve Rather Than Eat Healthy Food - CBS News; Save the Planet: Eat Peanut Butter and Jelly - Food - The Atlantic; The War Over America's Lunch - TIME; Why Whole Foods’ shoppers are thin and Albertsons’ aren’t | Grist; Beyond Vegetarianism--Raw Food, Vegan, Fruitarian, Paleo Diets; Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity — Home; Healthy School Food Leads to Better Behavior for One District; 6 Die: Family Food Consumption... By Country; Food Environment Atlas; Princeton Researchers Say High-Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Obesity Much More Than Sugar; Soon, We'll Have to Grow Meat in Vats: Scientists - Brave new measures may be needed to feed population; The True Cost of a Cheeseburger; The Ethics of Eating, by Peter Singer; The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing.; Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food Control - Reason Magazine; In Praise of Processed Food | The Atlantic Wire; Eating Meat OK if It's Farmed Right - New book changes George Monbiot's mind; Is PETA Butter full of ... vegans? | Grist; Should We Kill Off the Carnivores? | The Atlantic Wire; It's Not Just America: Halal 'Outrage' in the UK - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic; Hamburgers are the new heroin [VIDEO] | Grist; Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban on "rBGH Free" Milk Label | Sustainable Food | Change.org; KFC Ads on Rears Rile Women's Groups; Behind the Chicken Goop: The Truth and Science of Chicken Nuggets; Only Rich Will Eat Beef in 2050 - Production costs could make it the 'caviar of the future'; Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com; Animal Ethics: Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

biodiversity: Dead But Not Forgotten: 12 Incredible Creatures That Went Extinct | Design + Ideas; Human Preference For Other Species Could Determine Whether They Survive; World is off-track on biodiversity goals: U.N.: Scientific American; What Are Species Worth? Putting a Price on Biodiversity by Richard Conniff : Yale Environment 360

wild animals: Picture Perfect: Phony wildlife photography warps nature and is rarely revealed; CU researchers propose rewilding; Animal of the day - For animal lovers; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Eagle Cam - MyOutdoorTV.com; Two Harbors Nest; Coyote Crossing - Chris Clarke - Coyote Crossing; Hulu - Expedition Wild: Expedition Grizzly - Watch the full episode now.; The love that daren't squawk its name: When animals come out of the closet - Science, News - The Independent; YouTube - HOME (English with subtitles); Moms in the wild; U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits - NYTimes.com; Basics - Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive - NYTimes.com; Independent Lens . MILKING THE RHINO | PBS; Top Ten Issues Facing the National Parks -- National Geographic; Animal pictures of the week: 26 February 2010 - Telegraph; World Wildlife News; Yellowstone's Bears Hungry, Bloodthirsty - You might want to reconsider feeding the bears; Drunk Baboons Ravage Suburbia - Marauders plague South Africa vineyards; NYC Dims Lights for Migrating Birds - Feathered friends confused by the light, scientists believe; Dive-Bombing Bird Stops Mail in Canadian Town | User Submitted; Duck family for a walk :: Interesting pics,interesting photos of nature, funny pictures,funny animals pictures; Nature Valley & the National Parks - National Geographic; Friends of Animals | Neither Hunting Nor Pharma Control Is Right For Deer; The Impact of Wolf Hunting Much Greater than Commonly Assumed : TreeHugger; Predators: A Response - NYTimes.com; Good News from Uganda: Animal Populations Soaring in National Parks Thanks to Anti-Poaching Efforts : TreeHugger; Yale Environment 360: Video Captures Massive Haul-Out of Walruses as Summer Ice Retreats; Eastern Coyote/Coywolf Research

animals in entertainment, fur, etc: Nutria Rat Could Provide Sustainable Fur; Fashion World Listening; China accused of Skinning Animals Alive for Fur | User Submitted; Bull Charges the Stands, Injures 40 - Rampage in same region of Spain that hosts Running of the Bulls

general: Animals | Change.org; AnimalIntel's reviews - StumbleUpon; Animals & Society Institute; Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) |

primates: New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate; Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes | Video on TED.com; Op-Ed Contributor - Something Wild - NYTimes.com; WNYC - Radiolab » Fu Manchu; Baby gorilla pictured 'relaxing' in human-like pose - Telegraph; YouTube - Natural World - Clever Monkeys (Part 1/6); Orangutan 'Language' Deciphered; What Chimpanzee Warfare Reveals About Humans | The Atlantic Wire; Chimpanzees found making sex toys | MNN - Mother Nature Network; On the Differences Between Chimps and Humans | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook

animal law: L.A. Unleashed | Supreme Court to hear case on dog-fighting and freedom of speech | Los Angeles Times; Switzerland to vote on appointing lawyers for abused pets - Telegraph; Swiss Referendum Sunday May Establish - WSJ.com; Great-gran is tagged ... for selling a goldfish: The madness of Broken Britain | The Sun |News; YouTube - Facing Animals (1 of 11); ASPCA | U.S. Senate Passes Crush Act Amendment; PA Director of Homeland Security: Environmentalists are Terrorists, But Timothy McVeigh is Not »

memes: sharktopus.png (PNG Image, 650x750 pixels); YouTube - Funny Talking Animals - Walk On The Wild Side - Episode Six Preview - BBC One

animal pain and suffering: Whales Suffer Like Humans - Biologists cite studies as case against whaling; Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com

animal intelligence and behavior: Good Dog, Smart Dog - NYTimes.com; TED - The Amazing Intelligence Of Crows; 12 artsy animals that paint | MNN - Mother Nature Network; Rats Laugh When You Tickle Them -- Daily Intel; BBC News - Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools; philosophy bites: Paul Snowdon on Persons and Animals; Ethology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Amazing Bird Fishes Like A Human - Pogpog; Three arguments for the consciousness of cephalopods; StumbleVideo - The Intelligence of Our Cousins; Dog on Acid – Picselate; Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' // Current; Consider the Lobster: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com; Crows and parrots – brainy birds, but in different ways | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism: Giant Squid: Lazy Blob, Not Monster; xkcd: Desert Island; Amazon.com: A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement…; Abandoned Comic: Hamster Atonement - The Oatmeal

animals as symbols: Animal Documentary | Animal Treatment Society | Informative Movie With EARTHLINGS; Political Animals (Yes, Animals) - New York Times; Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture; Web Site of Boria Sax; AinimalsInHumanCivilization4; Rhino City Planned in Sudan; Animal Proportions 4 - Worth1000 Contests; Creepy Egyptian Cheese Ads Explain Geopolitics | The Atlantic Wire; MADness | Department of Medieval Studies; Creepy Egyptian Cheese Ads Explain Geopolitics | The Atlantic Wire; Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz - Boing Boing; Sir Nutalot - Worth1000 Contests; Crass Menagerie | Futility Closet

animals in captivity: 11 Tigers Starve to Death in China Zoo; Minister calls for zoos to be closed - Telegraph; Looking at gorillas through crazy-colored glasses | Grist; Beijing Zoo Visitors Taste the Animals on Display | Animals | Change.org; "Zoo Story:" A tale of two alphas - Laura Miller - Salon.com; Plastic toy draws Timmy the tortoise out of his shell | Environment | guardian.co.uk; YouTube - On Keeping Wild and Exotic Animals in Captivity; Taiwan zoo fined after birth of ligers | MNN - Mother Nature Network; Panda's Death Threatens China-Japan Relations; Xing Xing Died After Anesthesia

rights v welfare, and ethics generally: Animal-Rights-vs-Animal-Welfare.gif (GIF Image, 636x333 pixels); Animal Rights Concerns; Animal Liberation at 30 - The New York Review of Books; StumbleUpon.com: SU: Animal Welfare; Animal Rights Theory and Utilitarianism; Animal Rights History: Timeline of Quotes - Historical Literature Library Against Cruelty to Animals; Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach; Tierethik – Animal Ethics

cetaceans: Like Chimps, Whales and Dolphins Found to Possess Qualities of Personhood | Blue Living Ideas; A Feeling of Weirdness; Divers capture smiling pilot whale on camera - Telegraph; Divers capture smiling pilot whale on camera - Telegraph; Detailed Discussion of Dolphins Under the MMPA; Sea World trainer killed: Shamu Believe show resumes with standing ovation - OrlandoSentinel.com; Killer Whale Death at SeaWorld Sparks Renewed Call to Free Captive Orcas; Biologists: Killer whales 'neurotic' in captivity - CNN.com; Norwalk Reflector | Front | After human deaths, which animals die and which live?; Dolphin cognitive abilities raise ethical questions, says Emory neuroscientist; Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates - NYTimes.com; BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Whale chief mulls ending hunt ban; Killer Whale Attack That Killed Dawn Brancheau Was SeaWorld's Fault, Former Safety Chief Linda Simons Claims; Dolphin Blood Doesn't Stain The Cove —So Far - Dolphins were herded but then set free; Banksy Turns Kiddie Ride Into Anti-BP Statement : TreeHugger; YouTube - The Blue Whale

sharks: Underwater Thrills:Swimming With Sharks

ocean noise: Supreme Court Hears Case to Stop Sonar Testing That Tortures and Kills Whales | Animal Law Coalition; SURTASS LFA; Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council (NRDC) (07-1239) | LII / Legal Information Institute; NRDC v. Winter -- Green Trumps the Blue and Gold -- National Security Takes a Back Seat to Natural Resources : ACOEL; Human noise pollution in ocean can lead fish away from good habitats and off to their death; Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals; Winter v. NRDC « The Conservation Report; YouTube - Alligators and whales vs. humans - BBC

animals and trade: Canadian MPs put seal meat on parliament's menu in rebuff to EU | World news | The Guardian

exotics and global demand: Chinese Medicine | Bear Bile; World Cup 'Vulture Smoking' Theatens Rare Birds - Gamblers smoke birds' brains; bird lovers sqawk; BBC News - Illegal bushmeat 'rife in Europe'

organizations and institutions: Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare | University of Guelph; OIPA International Organization for Animal Protection; Ente Nazionale Protezione Animali

marine life: Jellyfish, Jellies, Medusa: 10 Amazing Facts; Investigations - Food and Farming - Eating insects: a solution to the meat problem? - The Ecologist

blogs: Animal Inventory Blog; Practical Ethics

Pics to use: 32 Pictures You Need To See Before You Die: Pics, Videos, Links, News

other (needs sorting): We can build whatever animal you want to eat, say scientists | News.com.au; On Demonizing Animal Killers « Animal Rights & AntiOppression; Classroom canines stimulate children's love of literacy | e! Science News; On Human-Nonhuman Relations: A Few Thoughts on Whether Animal Welfare Campaigns—and Many Animal Welfare Organisations—are necessary.; The Army Does <em>What</em> to Live Animals? - Planet Green; Once Banned, Dogs Reflect China’s Rise - NYTimes.com; A map of Jack Kirby's sentient dolphin utopia; The Rise of the Power Vegans - BusinessWeek; Odd Animal Pairs - Cute Mothering Animals at WomansDay.com; Blind German Spitz dog uses echoes to find his way round | swns.com; My Dog Tulip | An Animated Movie for Adults; Death Aquatic (Practical Ethics); These rats are the world's cutest bomb squad; Excerpt: Good Meat by Deborah Krasner; Wolf catches a salmon using fishing technique copied from bear | Mail Online; Stefano Unterthiner Photography : Animals Face to Face - COLT + RANE; International Animal-Law |; On War: Animals in War | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post; Dailymotion - endangered species in your plate - Animals; Audubon Magazine; Melanie Joy is Changing the Way We Think About Eating Animals (Interview) - Planet Green; Robot Be Good: A Call for Ethical Autonomous Machines: Scientific American; Basel Declaration defends animal research : Nature News; Dead Cow Walking | Psychology Today; YouTube - HALO THE POOL PLAYING DOG; New Proof that AWA Standards Rank Among the Best in U.S. | Animal Welfare Approved; Netflix: DogTown: Season 1: Second Chances; Lab Meat? | NOVA scienceNOW | PBS Video; What explains the ascendance of Homo sapiens? Start by looking at our pets - The Boston Globe; Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network; Netflix: Animals Are Beautiful People; Jonathan Safran Foer Debates Anthony Bourdain; Unpopular Vegan Essays: On Advocacy Media Preferences; Animal-Abuse Registries: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? - Law Blog - WSJ; Saudis Declare Vulture Innocent of Espionage | The Atlantic Wire; What Can Squid Hear? And Why Does It Matter? : TreeHugger; If Sarah Palin Were an Animal Rights Activist, She’d Be Convicted of “Terrorism” »; How NOT to Inspire More People to Go Vegan « Vegans of Color; Animal Law Blog: Horse meat back on the table; Wikileaks: US Offered to Block anti-Whaling Protesters | Informed Comment; Veganism is Unnatural–But Proof of Human Exceptionalism » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; Mother Jones loves sustainability, except when there's delicious, fancy food involved - vegansaurus! · San Francisco based Vegan Guide, IT'S AWESOME.; WAMU_132681961.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object); Advocates for Agriculture: Summit of the Horse; Human Exceptionalism: Is It Ethical To Ride a Horse to Death to Save a Human Life? » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; Canadians Sue Over Loose Moose - Injured Newfoundland drivers launch class-action suit; Swiss Village: Pay Dog Tax, or We Kill Fido - That's one way to get residents to pay...; 3quarksdaily; Conscious Entities » Blog Archive » Octopus consciousness; The screaming of the lambs : Pharyngula; Cognitio - Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds | Call for Papers; PETA's Weirdest Stunts of the Year - From chicken costumes to fake blood, it was another vocal year; Michael Vick Did Not Commit “Homicide”–Does Not Deserve “Execution” » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; Barack Obama Is a Michael Vick Fan? | The Atlantic Wire; “Beef is Good For You”; Pollan, Elitism, and Effective Advocacy; Dog Has a Vocabulary of 1,022 Words; Is grass-fed beef better for the environment? - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine; Marginal Revolution: *Kosher Nation*; Even animals as simple as fruit flies have free will; Cannibal cuisine « Mind Hacks; Defending Foie Gras; 400,000 Baby Chicks Killed By Bankrupt Poultry Farm : TreeHugger; FORA.tv - Dr. Anne Pusey: The Leakey Foundation; PETA’s Shelter Dogs Ad; Teaching Computers To Be More Empathetic : NPR; Commodifying Wildlife? World Bank Launches Market Scheme for Endangered Species; Ask Umbra’s Book Club: Would you blow up a mountain to save a bird species? | The green side of Jonathan Franzen and ‘Freedom’ | Grist; The Free-Range Albatross; Rats Necessary in Tinnitus Research–Teach Us About Working of Brain » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; Euthanasia Mass Grave Grim Reminder That Human Exceptionalism Necessary For “Never Again” » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; Chinese Activists Call Canada Racist For Selling Seal Meat : TreeHugger; Fish Hold Their Own Against College Students in Numbers Challenge | The Atlantic Wire; Tagging Harms Penguins: Study - Flipper tags affects survival, reproduction; Four Million Animals and Counting Buried Alive in South Korea; Hunter Becomes Hunted: A Fox Shoots a Man; Internet-controlled shotguns are the high-tech, extremely illegal solution to hog infestation; Why Chimps Are Still Necessary in Research » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; FORA.tv - Moe Flannery: Marine Mammal Stranding Network; Genetically Modified Chickens That Do Not Spread Avian Flu » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; China Bans Animal Circuses - And no more monkey meat on the human menus at zoos; PETA Accused of Planting Spy to Make Animal Park Look Bad–A Classic Animal Rights Ploy » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; New Book: Critical Theory and Animal Liberation | Continental Philosophy; Whitewash, by Joseph Keon: A Review; Truly sustainable meat eaters choose rabbit [VIDEO] | Grist; The Volokh Conspiracy » When a Horse is More than Just a Horse, and Also Qualifies as a “Vehicle”; Chavez Whines About 'Little Hugo' Dog in Colombian Soap - TV company ordered to yank 'shameless' program; AgWired » Blog Archives » Average Cattleman Explains Farm Life To HSUS President; How animals made us human - Drake Bennett - boston.com - RichardDawkins.net; What Are Species Worth? Putting a Price on Biodiversity by Richard Conniff : Yale Environment 360; Should Societal Values Be Considered When Placing Animals on the Endangered Species List? : TreeHugger; Commodifying Wildlife? World Bank Launches Market Scheme for Endangered Species; The Dogs Are Alright | Need To Know | PBS Video; Study explores how blindfolded dolphins can 'see' - Pets. Animals. - Salon.com; Sussing Out Simians: Humans Can Accurately Size Up a Chimp's Personality after Viewing Its Face: Scientific American; Guest Blog: Can you hear me now? Animals all over the world are finding interesting ways to get around the human din; Utah Law Would OK Shooting Homeless Animals - Animal rights organizations outraged; Formal portraits with animals - Boing Boing; Making Hay: Ending the Cycle of Violence; Lion Tacos Will Never Make It to The Menu » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; My Family and Other Animals - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education; Gorilla Walks Upright, Just Like Humans - Video of Britain's 'Ambam' is YouTube sensation; Australia's Fighting Dogs - A War Dog Photo Essay | Foreign Policy; Coyotes Take to Chicago - WSJ.com; 9 People Who Have Lived with Animals, Changing Our View Forever (Slideshow) : TreeHugger; Advocates for Agriculture: SDSU Students Study Unwanted Horse Issues; In Wake of Dog Execution: Is Killing Animals Ever OK? | The Atlantic Wire; In China, Bunny Frenzy Breeds Trouble - Buyers scramble for lucky but troublesome pets for Year of the Rabbit; The Truth About Dogs - 99.07; Artificial Intelligent Computers Would be Tools, Not Moral Beings » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; On Human-Nonhuman Relations: When Animal Advocates Try to Regulate Atrocities.; koiranomistajan10kaskya.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x849 pixels); Animals Make Friends, Too : Discovery News; My Face Is On Fire: Mark Bittman Disses Oprah (and I in Turn Diss Mark Bittman); Whatcha Thinkin About? | Seriously Cute; Transhumanists Launch Campaign for Animal Personhood » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog; Animal Welfare Debate Fires Up in Germany : TreeHugger; The great animal rights betrayal - Nature, Environment - The Independent; Dogs Aren't Dinner--and Pigs Shouldn't Be Either - Adam Phillips - Food - The Atlantic; Absolutely Amazing Dog Photos from Tim Flach; Green Sense: Jaws Never Return poster | Ads of the World

Anthropocentrism: All of God's Special Little Snowflakes : Pharyngula

Human Exceptionalism: Getting Rid of HE As a Means of Dumping God » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

YouTube - Ask Your Doctor About Meat™

Maxx, a 'Registered Therapy Dog,' Goes Everywhere, on False Pretenses - WSJ.com

Belief in Human Exceptionalism Only Real Protection of Human Subjects in Research » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light

Culture No Defense for Cruelty - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

Elephants Outwit Humans During Intelligence Test : Discovery News

Monkey in the Mirror: Scientific American

Green Is the New Red — Book Trailer

Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe - Telegraph

Couple Denied Adoption Because They're Vegetarian : TreeHugger

Human Exceptionalism: Review of The Moral Lives of Animals Says Author Seeks to Diminish Humanity » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Stunning Nude Photography Explores Industrial Pig Farming : TreeHugger

I’ve got a good food story to tell: yours [VIDEO] | Grist

Defensive Omnivore Bingo

Legal Theory Blog: Brooks on Respect for Nature & Species Egalitarianism

How Close is Non-Human Primate Cognition to Humans?

Animal Legal Defense Fund : Cut "It" Out!

It started with a shrew... study maps the primate family tree - Steve Connor, Science Editor - The Independent - RichardDawkins.net

36 Bizarre Group Names For Animals: Pics, Videos, Links, News

What do we mean by the “rights” of the nonhuman person?

Nathan Runkle Connects Gay Rights to Animal Rights

AgWired » Blog Archives » I Am Angus Spotlights Temple Grandin

Netflix: How Smart are Animals?: Nova scienceNOW

Millions of Puppy Mummies Unearthed in Egypt - They likely came from ancient puppy mills

Farm To Fridge Tour Videos

In Memory of Polar Bear Superstar Knut (30 Pic Tribute)

We're All Animals: A Fantastic Interview with Gary Francione

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE [trailer] on Vimeo

Real-Time Eagle Cam (with warning) - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Tornados Wiped Out Much of Alabama’s Chicken Industry

5 Disgusting and Depressing Stories of Captive Animal Abuse : TreeHugger

What Happens When the World is Vegan? Peta's Infographic : TreeHugger

Making a case for animal rights - City of Buffalo - The Buffalo News

YouTube - klaatu42's Channel

Bow wow! Some war dogs even have titanium fangs - San Diego, California News Station - KFMB Channel 8 - cbs8.com

Longleat Safari Park visitors warned as meerkats develop human feet fetish | Mail Online

Calif. School First to Ban Dissections in Software Deal - Students to use free anatomy software instead of frogs

FORA.tv - Does Understanding Evolution Help Us Understand Ethics?

32 Pictures You Need To See Before You Die: Pics, Videos, Links, News

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