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Triggered by animal suffering

Reddit Animals

I get extremely triggered by any animals suffering, feel bad for buying anything for myself and wish I’d give all my money to them. I have several pets and have been donating money to a NGO every month back home (I am from overseas so even if I donate 20 dollars, that’s meaningful to them).

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Rat trap

Reddit Animals

There is NO WAY I could let any animal suffer in a glue trap IN A GARBAGE CAN until it dies. I went directly outside and pulled the rat from the garbage can and got it unstuck and released it across the street. Both my step father and my mother were telling me how retarded I am and why would I do that… am I missing something?

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R. G. Frey on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

My view, then, is not that which it has often been taken to be in discussion and which Singer, Regan, Clark, and others blast in their work; I am not suggesting that, because they lack language, animals can be factory farmed without suffering. Animals can suffer, which they could not unless they were conscious; so they are conscious.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

Neither Aquinas nor Kant nor Newman denied, however, that animals could suffer: Descartes and Malebranche thought differently. It is impossible, they argued, to be cruel to animals, since animals are incapable of feeling.

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Quote of the Week

Critter News

"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Animals don't vote." Because government is not. Paul Harvey, American Radio Commentator.

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27,000 Animals Rescued in Texas

Critter News

The raid followed an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. An Arlington, Texas, municipal judge ruled that the animals suffered from neglect and cruel conditions, and an appeal by the company's owners to a higher court was denied last weekend. From the Detroit Free Press.

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Quote of the Week

Critter News

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Albert Schweitzer.