Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

Animal advocacy groups have been lobbying for this for a while. Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Excellent news! Thank you Air Canada!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We see a closer shot of the river itself, hawks flying across the span, and then we see that brown line again, close up, a wall of brown panels filling the right side of the screen, continuing into the distance, no end in sight, while a white pick-up truck drives parallel to it at the far left of the screen.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

To insure that those places continue to exist, birders should lead the way on education and advocacy regarding the Refuge System. To maintain and improve these treasured public lands, birders should take the lead on public education and advocacy for the Refuge System. The reason is twofold, size and mission.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. Here's a group I've never heard of. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Standing is often an issue in environmental lawsuits and advocacy groups have learned how to meet these requirements, sometimes including named individuals. The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. As Regan expressed so simply and straightforwardly, what animal rights advocates want is for "people to stop doing terrible things to animals."

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g.,

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Seems that the guy that wrote Sarah Palin's convention speech was none other then noted conservative and alleged animal rights supporter Matthew Scully. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. I wonder if reading Chris’s strongly contextualized, thoughtful recounting of the incident would change this person’s mind.

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2012

Two political parties in Quebec are speaking out about the ritual slaughter of animals, but a Jewish advocacy group is confident that kashrut is not being targeted. A Parti Québécois legislator said Wednesday that slaughter for halal meat is an affront to animal rights and runs counter to the values cherished by Quebecers.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights." First, note that now PeTA is an "animal advocacy group."

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Animal Person

JANUARY 11, 2010

If I'm speaking with an atheist I might use my personal thought process in my vegan advocacy, but if someone wants to believe there is a god, and that belief is helpful to them, and they're not hurting anyone because of that belief, I have no problem with that. They might not have a rights position, but we use what we have.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2011

Vegan education/advocacy for animals is easiest for me when I know my audience. I was going in a different direction with this post when I read Deb's " Effective Images in Advocacy: Do We Know What Works? Of course, those people, who are often the "spiritual" ones, are particularly frustrating to deal with. this morning.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Or, open to change, he can take the message in the ensuing pages to heart, let it shift his mind and stir his soul, and thus begin, right now, his advance toward freedom for all species (7)." This compilation is particularly important for people who believe in God and whose advocacy has religion or faith or spirituality as a component.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.' 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. FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

There's a donate button on the homepage of AnimalEquality right at the bottom of the "Pig Farms" panel. Showing people what goes on at "free-range" farms, for me, has always been a powerful part of my vegan advocacy efforts because that's always the fall-back position of the person I'm speaking with. (As Thanks a lot.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

A key reason RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry "exemplifies animal rights advocacy" -- as scholar & author Joan Dunayer put it her important book Speciesism -- is that people cannot understand basic autonomy rights applied to nonhuman animals without a critical perceptual shift, and it is universities' (..)

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

And they reach a lot of people who don't have animal rights on their radar but might stop using animals for food if they had something to gain (assuming a clearer conscience isn't something to gain). animals in research, in schools or as food). And they concentrate on the health aspects of removing animals from your diet.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Currently the Advocacy and Outreach Manager at Maine Audubon, he grew up in Maine and has a work history in conservation and public policy including seven years at the National Parks Conservation Association and volunteer work in communications for the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Analysis : The first and third paragraphs seem right to me, but the second is weaker, in my view. They engage in advocacy efforts, raise awareness about conservation issues, and collaborate with other organizations and initiatives to preserve and restore bird populations and their environments.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

See Campaigns page at www.RPAforAll.org. RPA's position statement opposing violence and other antisocial behavior in association with animal advocacy is available at www.RPAforAll.org or by request. Donations to RPA are tax deductible as allowed by law and may be made at the above address or www.RPAforAll.org.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Having now met Jeff twice at recent birding events and even having had the opportunity to bird with him I can say that he is a nice and thoughtful guy, a good birder, and exactly what the ABA needs right now. To me, the ABA right now is like March in the Mid-Atlantic for birders. This interview was conducted over email.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Heartening as these developments are, there is also strong resistance from the food industry and from fake consumer-advocacy groups that are shilling for it.

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Animal Person

JULY 23, 2009

Books are obvious opportunities for advocacy and vegan education. How successful they are at creating new vegans or animal rights advocates depends on many factors. . Plus, selling it is a bit different as the quality of the writing and the story is of paramount importance.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand).

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

That’s right, for me—but it may not be for others. April 9, 2009 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns, an advocacy group. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May. I still have the same six-pack stomach I had in the Marines. Every meal, for me, is a celebration of life.

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