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		<title>Are Pigs Really Like People?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[We hear this all the time. Pig physiology is like people physiology. Pigs and humans have the same immune system, same digestive system, get the same diseases. Pigs are smart like people are smart. Pigs are smarter than dogs. And so on. Ask a faunal expert in archaeology or a human paleoanatomist: Pig teeth are &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/06/11/are-pigs-really-like-people/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Are Pigs Really Like People?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Many Duluth Zoo Animals Dead In Floods</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Duluth, a second tier Minnesota city on Lake Superior, has been flooding. This is a little unusual; heavy rains following a period of saturation have caused a local river that is usually not even heard of to grow very large and cause flooding that a lot of people haven&#8217;t seen before. The polar bear and &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/20/many-duluth-zoo-animals-dead-in-floods/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Many Duluth Zoo Animals Dead In Floods</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part III)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;. Continued &#8230;. So, what rights to what animals get? When Charlton Heston&#8217;s character in Planet of the Apes came across that great edifice of Western Civilization and realized that the old Orangutan was right &#8230; humans are fundamentally destructive of themselves and their near relatives &#8230; he replicated in the fictional future what Louis &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/26/animal-rights-and-human-needs-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part III)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part II)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part 1 &#8230; Animal rights are arbitrarily granted or assumed If human rights are arbitrarily assigned, so are animal rights. The argument has been made that animals with certain properties &#8230; sentience (the definition of which moves somewhat), phylogenetic closeness to humans, or the ability to feel pain, etc. &#8230; should share some &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/21/animal-rights-and-human-needs-1/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part II)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part I)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What rights should be afforded non-human animals, to which animals, under what circumstances, and why? What are the criteria for such decisions? What should those who disagree with the status quo do? In my view, some rights should be given to some animals, depending on circumstances. I believe the criteria for this decision are more &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/03/20/animal-rights-and-human-needs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Animal Rights and Human Needs: Foundations of the debate (Part I)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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