A couple of months ago I wrote a post on why it is that people fail to take animal advocacy seriously. Today I want to elaborate that claim by illustrating it with a recent example. As most readers of AnimalBlawg probably know, President Obama swatted a fly during an interview with John Hardwood several weeks [...]
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Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s choice for administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (a sort of Administrative Law Czar), is a law academic (U of Chicago and now Harvard) and an advocate and scholar of animal law. He supports (among other things) the creation of a private right of action for animal protection [...]
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George Bush and his peeps thought gray wolves should be delisted as endangered species in Montana and Idaho. So does Ken Salazar and, we must assume, Barack Obama. Bush and peeps also thought it okay to ignore allies. So, apparently, do Ken Salazar and Barack Obama. But never mind politics.
Wolves were hunted to near extinction [...]
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First, I want to live in a world where no member of my species thinks the best way to relax a cat is to stuff it into a bong.
Second, President Obama has re-empowered the Endangered Species Act (ESA). One of our former president’s last minute parting gifts was to decree that federal agencies could decide [...]
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Last night’s election was remarkable for all kinds of reasons, including the passage of California Proposition 2, which outlaws gestation crates, battery cages and veal crates over a period of seven years. Reasonable people can differ over whether the initiative well serves interests of farm animals. However, I think it beyond dispute that the electorate [...]
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