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543 Articles match "2008"
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Make sure you look after your pet with insurance
According to the RSPCA, in 2008 there was a 57% increase in the number of animals abandoned by their owners in the UK. similar problem is also occurring in the United States, where the Humane society of the United states claims that up to 8 million animals enter animal shelters each year, showing that this is an international problem.
4 The Love Of Animals
- Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Soup kitchen for pets
In 2008, with 19 offices nationwide, Tiertafel has helped 4,028 customers to feed 6,291 pets on a regular basis. Germany has been one of Europe’s strong economies, but things are changing for everyone. It began with the saddest story, as great ideas often do. Not everyone is eligible for help. This lady is so happy to have the help.
4 The Love Of Animals
- Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.
Critter News
- Sunday, August 15, 2010
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King County Animal Shelters Still in Trouble
After all the brewhaha about improving the conditions at the King County animal shelters in Washington State (where we live), I'm still seeing this kind of stuff. When is King County going to clean up its act? What is up with this "progressive" county government?
Critter News
- Thursday, September 18, 2008
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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial
Finally, a cruelty suit against Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, is coming to trial. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. On Monday, Federal Court Judge Emmet Sullivan will begin hearing testimony in the case.
Critter News
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
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Peter Singer on Animal Rights
Why is it surprising that I have little to say about the nature of rights? It would only be surprising to one who assumes that my case for animal liberation is based upon rights and, in particular, upon the idea of extending rights to animals. But this is not my position at all.
Animal Ethics
- Sunday, February 10, 2008
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Animal Ethics
- Thursday, March 6, 2008
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Peter Singer on the Moral Significance of Self-Consciousness
Preference utilitarians count the killing of a being with a preference for continued life as worse than the killing of a being without any such preference. Self-conscious beings therefore are not mere receptacles for containing a certain quantity of pleasure, and are not replaceable. have elsewhere argued that their interests do count.
Animal Ethics
- Thursday, July 17, 2008
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J. Baird Callicott on Domesticity
One of the more distressing aspects of the animal liberation movement is the failure of almost all its exponents to draw a sharp distinction between the very different plights (and rights) of wild and domestic animals. But this distinction lies at the very center of the land ethic. Domestic animals are creations of man.
Animal Ethics
- Monday, October 13, 2008
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From Today's New York Times
6, 2008To the Editor: Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld writes about the horrors of a kosher slaughterhouse where “news reports and government documents have described abusive practices.” But he says almost nothing about reports of how badly the animals were treated there. Religious slaughter is still slaughter. Gretchen Berger New York, Aug.
Animal Ethics
- Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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Farm Animals Help Alleviate Mental Illness
The study was released in April 2008, but I think it is still worth noting. It's not just cats and dogs! new study, published online in Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, suggests that animal assisted therapy for people with mental disorders can be effective with farm animals.
Critter News
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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Activists Again Target UCLA Over Animal Research
As today began (oct 6 2008) we caught up with a couple of your currently popular vanpools. This time, they've slipped unfired shotgun shells into the tailpipes of some UCLA vans. In two different locales, using small wooden rods we slipped unfired shotgun shells into the mufflers by way of the tailpipes of two of your vans.
Critter News
- Thursday, October 9, 2008
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From Today's New York Times
15, 2008To the Editor: Re “ In Europe, the Catch of the Day Is Often Illegal ” (“Empty Seas” series, front page, Jan. 15): The appalling commercial demand for seafood will soon exhaust the oceans. Only a vigorous, internationally enforced, decades-long general moratorium on commercial fishing can bring us back from this brink.
Animal Ethics
- Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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