Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry. In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims.

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. It's cruel. There's no "compassion" in the process.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100