Why does President Bush hate animals?

Seriously. He seems to be doing everything he can possibly manage to make things more precarious than they already are for the Earth's living creatures in his last lame-duck days. (Gotta include humans in there, actually.)

Hat tip to Stephanie from Change.org's Animal Rights channel for compiling this list of links of people talking about the latest administration antics.

One of the worst tactics, removing the requirement for independent scientific reviews of the environmental impact of proposed federal projects, is covered by the LA TImes here. Because who needs independent reviews? Because we all have sooo much trust that whoever is in charge of something (be it industry or government) is really really honest and thorough when it comes to self-policing and self-regulating.

Sigh. So disheartening.