Animal Ethics

JANUARY 8, 2007

Here is a resource for anyone who is doing research on, or is merely interested in, animal rights. Tom Regan is one of the founders of the modern animal-rights movement. I will add the site to the blogroll.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2008

Global warming is an animal ethics issue. As the planet warms, fragile habitats that countless animal species depend on for survival will be destroyed. Recently published research suggests that the situation is even more dire than previously predicted.

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APRIL 11, 2008

But then again, it could be due to the fact that we are constantly bombarded with billion-dollar advertising campaigns from the meat industries, the dairy industry, and the egg industry, as well as from myriad restaurant chains that promote and sell these very animal products. In part, because of media obfuscation. metric tons per year?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

Whoever thought President Bush was a pro-animal environmentalist? People like Adolf Hitler are pro-animal environmentalists! The point, of course, is that there is no necessary connection between (1) a person's attitude toward animals or the environment and (2) his or her normative political theory. Navy to do so?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” They're wild animals! Wild animals should be left alone.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. Research indicates that sows do just fine in individual housing. Decisions on how best to house farm animals should be left to the family farmers, like me, who care for their animals every day. Editorial rhetoric won’t help.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 8, 2008

To the Editor: The recent terrorist attacks on scientists (“ Firebombings at Homes of 2 California Researchers ,” news article, Aug. 4) are abhorrent acts condemned by the vast majority of animal advocates and the organizations who represent them, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society. 5, 2008 Note from KBJ: Well put!

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The use of chimpanzees for research has declined significantly in the last decade mostly because of high costs and growing public opposition to relying on these animals in invasive experiments. It is time to retire chimpanzees in labs to sanctuaries like Chimp Haven. Kathleen Conlee Washington, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

It's hard to say because the government still has not instituted a comprehensive MRSA inspection process, but independent research conducted by Tara Smith, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa, suggests that MRSA-infected animals may be widespread indeed. are fed to farm animals.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In my earlier post "Children and Heart Disease" available here , I noted that, in the seventh and final edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: A Handbook for Parents of the Developing Child from Birth to Adolescence , Dr. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age. The answer is "Yes."

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. Beef farmers and ranchers alone have invested more than $28 million since 1993 in beef safety research, and the industry as a whole invests an estimated $350 million a year on safety.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. We know that animals suffer as well.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2008

I was also intrigued to read that “in previous studies, researchers showed that humans who had been paralyzed for years could learn to control a cursor on a computer screen with their brain waves.” So why were the monkeys used?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. Scientific research and expertise are needed here. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) Would not eating these animals be morally permissible?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

Yes, concentrated animal feeding operations, or “factory farms” as you call them, are a key feature of modern agriculture. Recently they have invested millions of dollars into research conducted by Purdue University. To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) is in a time warp.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 15, 2007

Whaling for scientific research is indispensable to establish the proper conservation of whales and ocean resources. Japan is sincerely committed to researching whales’ dietary habits and nutrition status, as well as the shift in whale populations by age over time. Jiro Okuyama Dir.,

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 10, 2009

Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2009 The writers are, respectively, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, an independent researcher in Adelaide, Australia, and professor of climate change at the University of Adelaide. Reducing the size of the national cattle herd is the only feasible solution.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of scientific research. It is not enough to simply cut animal products (or carbohydrates, or calories) out of one’s diet. Contrary to Ms. Nicole Speer Boulder, Colo.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

A copy of the paper was deposited with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in East Lansing, where I did much of my research, but it has never been published. Would anyone be interested in reading it? If so, I can scan, upload, and link to it in this blog.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system. In cows, the hormones have been shown to increase lameness, udder infections and bone cancer. But for Henry I.

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