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Stopping species extinction — saving our bacon while saving our souls

By Erik Curren | May 21, 2012

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"Animal rights" always seemed to me like one of the most contrived and implausible concepts to come out of the politically correct left in the last few decades. The idea conjured an image of urban hipsters whose main interface with wildlife was a fishbowl or hamster cage and who couldn't believe that pickup truck drivers out in the boonies still did retrograde things like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: animal rights, apartheid, Cormac Cullinan, environmental regulations, human rights, PETA, South Africa, species extinction, Thomas Berry

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