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On Honoring Living "Things"
William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My father once explained to me that he felt the profoundest guilt for having to kill other living things in order to survive, so much so that he never took more that he needed and he always apologized to the spirit of the animal or plant for cutting its life short. It took a while before I really began seeing everything the way he did, but now that is the view
Animal Person
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
SHAC7 Trailer
I credit Will Potter as the catalyst for shifting my focus away from critiques of other activists and activist groups (particularly his post, " While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other " back in 2008). If you're in NYC on March 23, support " Muzzling A Movement " at my alma mater, New York University at 7pm (presented by the NYU Student Animal Legal Defense Fund).
...Tags: SHAC 7 Trailer from Sparrow Media on Vimeo . I'm not saying that criticism of PETA, or any other group, isn't
Animal Person
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Orcas Have Some Pretty Big Brains
Tags: captivity animal ethics marine animals Orca They have the second largest brains of all marine mammals. That's pretty impressive and demands a deeply introspective review of how we treat them.
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Critter News
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights
I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. Tags: oceans marine animal We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today. For the past couple of issues I've read, it has had a "sustainable seafood recipe."
Critter News
- Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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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. A group of veterinarians that volunteered this year to treat sick animals at King County's two animal shelters has quit, citing a lack of accountability and a reluctance from shelter staff to fix a broken system. The vet setback is the latest for King County Animal Care and Control, which has come under fire in the past year for running understaffed, overcapacity shelters with high euthanasia rates.
Critter News
- Thursday, September 18, 2008
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On "Animal Activism"
I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. 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." I'm trying to gauge people's receptivity to what I'm about to say. I
Animal Person
- Saturday, May 23, 2009
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On "Knockout Animals"
Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. But let's say I have chosen to avoid factory farming, and in fact the consumption of animals entirely (to the extent that it's practical), while most people will make no such choice. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.
Some might consider this a false dilemma, as built
Animal Person
- Friday, February 19, 2010
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Peter Singer on Animal 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. make very little use of the word 'rights' in Animal Liberation , and I could easily have dispensed with it altogether. think that the only right I ever attribute to animals is the "right" to equal consideration of interests, and anything Why is it surprising that I have little to say about the nature of rights? But this is not my position at all.
Animal Ethics
- Sunday, February 10, 2008
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On Indigenous People and Animals
A couple of years ago I catalogued the dozens of excuses/rationalizations from well-meaning, compassionate people about why they eat animals, and all fell into one of six categories:
Cain=farmer=evil murderer; Abel=slaughtered animals=victim/good son.
Second, if the people who believe this would eat all of their "meat" unseasoned and raw, after having killed the source animal It's what god wanted (and other versions, such as: That's why they were put on the earth. . . . By god .)
Animal Person
- Saturday, January 23, 2010
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Suit Against Circus Owners Goes to Trial
Department of Agriculture investigator determined the use of the bull hook “precipitated in the physical harm and ultimate death” of Benjamin, said Tracy Silverman, general counsel for the Animal Welfare Institute....The The suit, also filed by The Fund for Animals, of Maryland; the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of Washington; The Animal Protection Institute of Sacramento; and Tom Rider, a former Ringling Bros. Finally, a cruelty suit against Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, is coming to trial.
Critter News
- Thursday, October 23, 2008
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New Book on Animal Rights Activism
It's titled "The Animal Activists' Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World" by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich. One guy runs Vegan Outreach and the other is a VP at PETA (they have those?). Here's a review on Huffington Post. Looks like it has some interesting ideas.
Critter News
- Saturday, May 9, 2009
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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared
A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms . Recent victories by animal protection advocates have an increasing number of pro-factory-farming lobbyists worried about Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives.
Animal Ethics
- Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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What's the Difference Between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights?
Tags: animal rights animal welfar Here's one perspective.... (See if you can figure out when the author starts talking about PETA. She doesn't mention it by name, but who else could it be?)
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Critter News
- Thursday, June 4, 2009
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