243 Articles match "2007"

• The Best from Animal Rights

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• Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared
  
  A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms . Recent victories by animal protection advocates have an increasing number of pro-factory-farming lobbyists worried about the future of animal
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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• Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!
  
  Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2007 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. Join me in resolving to do right by animals in 2007. As another year comes to a close, most of us find ourselves reflecting on our lives and resolving to improve ourselves and our lives in various ways. These resolutions typically fall into one of two categories: (1) resolutions to acquire some desirable trait or better-making habit, e.g.,
  Animal Ethics - Sunday, December 31, 2006
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• From the Mailbag
  
  Dear Keith, I'd like to request a copy of the essay "Simplifying the Case for Vegetarianism" that you praised on your webpage (12 Jan 2007). I also want to take the opportunity to say how much I enjoy reading the excellent insights/arguments/links etc that you've included on Animal Ethics over the years. Many thanks—with all good wishes, Richard Dr.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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• Animal Minds
  
  The March 11, 2007 episode of the Stanford University radio program "Philosophy Talk" focuses on animal minds. Stanford Philosophy Professors John Perry and Ken Taylor host the show. Their guest is Colin Allen of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington. Also featured on the show are Dr.
  Animal Ethics - Sunday, March 18, 2007
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• May Statistics
  
  That makes it the second-best month ever, not far behind April 2007. This blog had 2,708 visitors during May, which is an average of 87.3 visitors per day. Thanks for visiting. I hope you are making use of the bibliography in the sidebar.
  Animal Ethics - Friday, June 1, 2007
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• From Today's New York Times
  
  March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. Dave Warner Director of Communications National Pork Producers Council Washington, March 28, 2007 To the Editor: Regardless of how “humanely” an animal is raised, it still has to be slaughtered to be eaten. Judith Abeles San Diego, March 26, 200 To the Editor: Re “ Mr. Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely.
  Animal Ethics - Monday, April 2, 2007
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• From Today's New York Times
  
  12, 2007 Note from KBJ: You are what you wea To the Editor: Re “ Uncruel Beauty ” (Thursday Styles, Jan. 11), about vegan-friendly fashion: Not only is it chic to wear fashion that has some conscience and imagination to it, but there also is a marvelous inner feeling of knowing that one is not using one’s clothing to wage a war on nature. Some day it will be the ultimate in chic to be a compassionate consumer.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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• From the Mailbag
  
  This month the management posted announcements stating that as of January 2007 (3 months ago, even though announcements were only posted this month) their new policy was that all cats must be declawed on their front feet, or else cat owners will face eviction. Hi I have a friend who lives in San Diego, CA who has recently run into some problems with her apartment management. My friend is horrified by this.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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• From Today's New York Times
  
  May 20, 200 To the Editor: Your overture in “ My Dear Fellow Species ” (Week in Review, May 20) to the 150th anniversary celebration of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species” through his letters is a fine attempt to briefly summarize his personality. But in a Darwin letter of April 3, 1880, which I have, where he thanks Georg Heinrich Schneider for sending him a copy of his recently published treatise “Der thierische Wille”—a valuable contribution to animal psychology—Darwin seems to sum up his life’s work in one sentence: “Everything about the minds of animals interests me greatly.”
  Animal Ethics - Sunday, May 27, 2007
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• Horse Slaughter No More
  
  As reported in this Northern Star story, on July 5, 2007, Cavel International, the last remaining horse slaughterhouse operating in America, was ordered by U.S. For several years, conscientious U.S. citizens have been struggling to bring an end to the inhumane practice of slaughtering horses for human consumption. Happily, that struggle is finally over.
  Animal Ethics - Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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