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This blog had 1,647 visits during November, which is an average of 54.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 51.0.

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Here are the posts from December 2005.

Anniversary

This blog is 12 years old today. Here is the first post. There have been 296,367 visits, which is an average of 24,697.2 visits per year, 67.6 visits per day, and 473.3 visits per week.

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This blog had 1,417 visits during October, which is an average of 45.7 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 38.7.

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This blog had 1,024 visits during September, which is an average of 34.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 27.0.

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This blog had 770 visits during August, which is an average of 24.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 21.2.

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Here are the posts from September 2005.

Abolitionism Versus Meliorism

Here is a New York Times op-ed column, coathored by a philosopher and an historian, about animal rights.

Ten Years Gone

Here are the posts from August 2005.

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This blog had 850 visits during July, which is an average of 27.4 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 24.6.

Beliefs About Animal Rights

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. A recent Gallup poll (conducted May 6-10, 2015) found that 32% of Americans believe that "animals deserve the exact same rights as people to be free from harm and exploitation," while only 3% of Americans feel that animals don't need much protection from harm and exploitation "since they are just animals." Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. If you are among the growing number of Americans who think that animals deserve the same moral rights as people, you can help promote their rights by refusing to purchase products from industries that harm and exploit animals.

Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.

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This blog had 865 visits during June, which is an average of 28.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 28.0.

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This blog had 1,313 visits during May, which is an average of 42.3 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 48.8.

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This blog had 1,572 visits during April, which is an average of 52.4 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 57.3.

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This blog had 1,182 visits during March, which is an average of 38.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 49.0.

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This blog had 910 visits during February, which is an average of 32.5 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 43.0.

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This blog had 955 visits during January, which is an average of 30.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 36.5.

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From Today's New York Times

To the Editor:

As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“Hens, Unbound,” column, Jan. 1).

The tiny cages and crates that confine about 90 percent of laying hens and more than 80 percent of gestating sows are both physically and mentally tormenting for the animals involved.

Physically, the muscles and the bones of the animals atrophy from lack of use. Mentally, they go insane from boredom and stress, just as our dogs or cats would if they were kept in tiny crates or carriers for their entire lives.

There is no difference between cruelty to a pig or a dog or a hen or a cat, and so the sooner we relegate these awful devices to the dustbin of history, the better.

BRUCE G. FRIEDRICH
Washington, Jan. 1, 2015

The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.

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This blog had 1,246 visits during December, which is an average of 40.1 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 56.5.

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