Showing posts with label animal rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal rights. Show all posts
Sunday, December 29, 2024

"Rhino horns are a renewable resource." Would a legal market help save endangered rhinoceroses?

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 Right now it is illegal to buy or cell rhino horn, to protect endangered rhinoceroses from poachers who kill them.  But could a legal, tigh...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Blood transfusion for dogs and cats

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 Somewhat as in human donation around the world, blood donors for veterinary transfusions of cats and dogs are both volunteers and professio...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Technology and crime: cloning giant sheep

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  There are things you can go to prison for that wouldn't have been possible to do not long ago. The Washington Post is on the case: Ran...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Kidney transplants for cats

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 Kidney transplants for cats are a thing, and they all take the form of kidney exchange with a very short chain, in which the lives of two c...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

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  The eminent primatologist Frans de Waal has passed away. Here's a memoriam from Emory University: Emory primatologist Frans de Waal re...
Friday, February 2, 2024

Picking the wrong pony: wolves and people in Europe

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 The Guardian has the story, within the larger story of controversy about wolves, and endangered species. A wolf killed the EU president’s p...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Black market monkeys for medical research

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 Monkeys used in medical research are supposed to come from carefully bred laboratory colonies, but the rising price has led to black market...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

Illegal to sell fur coats in California

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  The NY Times has the story. (And you still can't eat horsemeat here.) Fur Sales Are Illegal in California. Does Anyone Care? .The popu...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Who is a person?

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 The question of who is a person (in law, and in welfare economics) is sometimes vexing. Arguments about abortion focus on the personhood of...
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Will NYC ban fur sales?

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The NY Times has the story: Proposed Fur Ban in New York Pits Animal Rights Advocates Against Black Ministers "As Corey Johnson, t...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Xenotransplants, Baby Fae, and the complex pioneering efforts of Dr. Leonard Bailey, RIP

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The recent death of Dr. Leonard Bailey (who performed the first successful heart transplant to an infant) reminded me of how so many ultima...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Kosher and halal slaughtering banned in Belgium

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The coalition of liberal animal rights activists and European anti-Semites and Islamophobes doesn't make the new laws easy to parse: ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Laboratory grown meat: coming ...soon?

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For omnivores concerned about cruelty in the food supply, laboratory grown meat offers an attractive possibility.  It's being explored ...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Illegal trade in wildlife--photographic art recording a black market

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The WSJ has a story about a photographer who has created still-life photos from animal remains confiscated  by Canadian customs agents. ‘...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Kidney exchange for cats

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When you read about a kidney transplant for a cat (see below), you might wonder about the kidney donor.  It turns out the transplant involv...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Bestiality: legal in some states and illegal in others

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Here's a repugnance story from the Guardian: 'A great victory for animals': bestiality may finally be outlawed in Ohio A bill...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Repugnance watch: China Bans Its Ivory Trade, Moving Against Elephant Poaching

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The NY Times has the story:  China Bans Its Ivory Trade, Moving Against Elephant Poaching "China announced on Friday that it was ban...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Repugnance watch: US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear parts

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The Guardian has the story:  US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear parts " The US government has quietly dropped its c...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Burning ivory to educate the world about the illegal poaching of elephants

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Kenya burns world's biggest ivory stockpile worth $105m in conservation effort "Kenya set light to 105 tonnes of elephant ivory...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Sri Lanka Destroys Illegal Elephant Tusks

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 The NY Times has the story:  Sri Lanka Destroys Illegal Elephant Tusks "A group of saffron-robed monks chanted as officials crus...