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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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

Look, I think it's great that scientists are observing the nonhuman world and reporting back to us that we are in fact all animals and as such we all have personalities (though I don't really get that vibe as the angle). At least there is a similar response given by the scientists in this article who study animals.

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Animal Pigs Human Animals Humane 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

animals in research, in schools or as food). And they concentrate on the health aspects of removing animals from your diet. 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).

Vegan 100

Vegan Campaign Advocacy Vegetarian 100

Animal Person

JULY 23, 2009

How successful they are at creating new vegans or animal rights advocates depends on many factors. . Querying agents should involve research. In my experience, the biggest problem for prospective authors is that they don't know who their audience is and they say "everybody should read my book and can benefit from it."

Vegan 100

Vegan Advocacy Animal Rights Research 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. The plate might have to be five feet across" (50). This is very silly.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Scientific research and expertise are needed here. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) KBJ: I agree that this is a factual question. If not, why not?

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40