Last year Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble, setting off a heated courtroom battle. California just passed a proposition that says farm animals must be humanely caged. The legal line between humans and animals is blurring further everyday. When it comes to "animal rights," should your cocker spaniel be entitled to the same freedoms and protections as your kid?
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The Market Value of Animals
- From Paul J Fitzgerald
By Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J. - Santa Clara University
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Religion and state
Animals exist separately from our ideas about Sate and God, since they do not participate in these ideas - should we be considering them in the context of religion and State and applying our own values to their lives?
- sor666
May 6, 2009 7:11AM
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