Animal Rights

The chimp who thought he was a boy
Raised like a son by a New York City family as part of a language experiment, Nim Chimpsky was shipped away when funds ran out. A new biography tells Nim's story.
Should we euthanize the Yorkie?
My grandmother is ill and cannot care for her aging Yorkshire terrier.
Feminist blog goes to the dogs
Animal rights activists hijack Feministing, attacking blogger for buying her puppy from a breeder.
I hate my cat!
We saved this day-old kitten from certain death, and now, three years later, he's our worst nightmare.
I want my foie gras!
Outspoken foodies Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman sound off about New Jersey's plan to ban the duck delicacy -- and how the food police are ruining America.
Can I kill a cat if it poops in my yard?
My kids like to play and there's a cat that visits every night.
The practical ethicist
"The Way We Eat" author Peter Singer explains the advantage of wingless chickens, how humans discriminate against animals, and the downside of buying locally grown food.
And your little dog, too
New Maine law includes pets in domestic violence protection orders.
I'm so vegan it hurts
I'm becoming increasingly militant in my vegetarian activism, and it's causing me to isolate and be depressed.
Thugs for puppies
The militant animal rights group SHAC has one goal: Cripple a lab that tests (and kills) dogs and monkeys. They say they're activists. The government calls them terrorists.
"Cut class, not frogs"
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' new Web site tutors teenage animal-rights warriors how to resist dissection in biology class and mystery meat in the cafeteria.
"Drawing the Line" by Steven M. Wise
A Harvard professor says science itself proves that such animals as parrots, apes and elephants should be considered persons with legal rights.
Send in the clowns
How Ringling Bros. minions tormented a freelance writer for eight years.
No free speech for animal rights Web sites
A British medical research firm hammers its online opponents, courtesy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
"Professor Death"
Controversial bioethicist Peter Singer talks about the difference between humans and animals (none), the virtues of euthanasia (many) and why some babies are better off dead.
The killer cocks of Oregon
Why does the land o' many Birkenstocks allow fowl to be bred for cockfights?
"Rattling the Cage"
In his new book, animal rights law professor Steven Wise argues that chimps are persons too.
Why I stopped being a vegetarian
It's anti-social, not necessarily healthful -- and besides, meat tastes good!
Media circus
Congressional representatives join "The Price Is Right" host Bob Barker in a made-for-media clarion call for elephants' rights in India.
Where's the rest of me?
The prospect of "full-body transplants" offers some weird new twists on the old mind-body problem.
Newsreal: Death to Bambi!
The problem of America's exploding deer population is pitting hunters, who want to shoot more of them, against animal rights activists, who want to try birth control.
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