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Animal rights

  • Animal husbandryThe first wild animal to be domesticated was the dog, perhaps starting with young individuals tolerated as scavengers and killers of vermin.
  • Edicts of AshokaIn the year 260 BCE, a stone slab stood in Old Kandahar, modern Afghanistan. It bore words in Greek and Aramaic. These were not random carvings but official…