Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Free Speech may be a noble ideal, but perhaps we are better served by thinking of it not only as a right but also as a privilege. They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? Or don't they because animals we use for food are not thought by the masses as victims of cruelty? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. What an utterly grotesque project.

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Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

Do you use the idea of "evil" in your thinking and processing of animal rights and veganism? Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway? Is evil an excuse we make for people?

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Many vegans and animal rights activists "have a book in them" but soon discover, despite their well-crafted book proposal and sample chapters, that most mainstream publishers aren't interested. And just for clarity, I'm not talking about using Xlibris and the like, which are print-on-demand companies.)

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

Maybe sugar processed with bone char isn't worth boycotting a restaurant over. I'm not saying give up on "animal rights," either. And they're all pretty obvious. As for the less obvious (gelatin in tires? didn't know that), there's only so much you can do, and each person has to draw their own line in the sand. Maybe it is.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Here are some of my favorite quotes: "For thousands of years, farmers took their cues from natural processes. This is not a book about animal rights, and some might say Foer gets animal rights wrong as his only reference is PETA. However, I do like how Foer words some concepts that we all chat about regularly.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the article by Nathaniel Popper, PETA and Israel animal rights group Concern for Helping Animals, have tried to address this “shackle and hoist” process, approved by the Orthodox Union but has made little headway.

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

What makes Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home the best in vegan education and animal rights education is that, without getting too much into the hideous treatment of anyone, James LaVeck and Jenny Stein (a.k.a. Tribe of Heart ) have managed to leave the viewer no option that includes eating animals.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We in the developed world, in mainstream America, do not need to use animals in order to survive or thrive or please our palates. We do it because we want to and we choose to, and we ought to think about what else we're choosing in the process, and not deny or shy away from the implications of our choices.

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Animal Person

JULY 23, 2009

I have an unusual number of e-mails from individuals who have written, are writing, or would like to write a book about animals and asked about various steps in the publishing process. How successful they are at creating new vegans or animal rights advocates depends on many factors. .

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” Half of the sixteen German states already have some sort of animal rights provisions in their constitutions.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

But even when the purpose of research is to benefit the animals themselves, inflicting pain or death in the process of research is wrong. Animals cannot give consent. Hence, unlike humans, they cannot be called upon to sacrifice even for the good of other animals.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

My original interest was narrow: animal rights. The metaphor that I chose to describe this process is a zoom lens. Originally, I said, I was focused on animals. It ranged over music, politics, and philosophy, but the most interesting subject was how each of us came to discover and fall in love with philosophy.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. 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. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

What the utilitarian who defends human carnivorousness must say, then, is something like this: that the amount of pleasure which humans derive per pound of animal flesh exceeds the amount of discomfort and pain per pound which are inflicted on the animals in the process, all things taken into account. Is this plausible?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. Killing a hog can be avoided. But we do need to digest food in order to live.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It would be a way of protesting present practice, a way of saying, “I disagree strongly with the treatment of animals used for food.” But so could lots of other things: wearing an animal rights button, picketing meat-packing houses, and so on. Certainly, not eating meat could have this protest function.

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