Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Anderson, famous for slow-motion beach running scenes in the hit 1990s lifeguard TV show, wrote to R.C.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 9, 2009

For instance, he is figuring out a way to " deliver advertisements for rescued animals seeking adopters and fosters." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. Chris is a bit of a geek, and I say that with great warmth and admiration, and he's always trying to figure things out technically and technologically.

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Animal Person

APRIL 12, 2009

They can say that the puppy was needing to be re-homed, therefore it's like adopting from a rescue group. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. But I didn't campaign for a presidential greyhound for exactly the same reason Obama's decision was disappointing: it glorifies pure breed dogs.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Yesterday, I was on my way to the Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, which has a "store" and allows those parents to "shop" for clothing, toys and baby gear at no cost to them. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Thanksgiving veganism. Yet the turtle. cause for concern about his welfare. turkey. . .

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Animal Person

JANUARY 1, 2010

But I frankly never thought of not helping individual cats and dogs (through adoption) as an option for me. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. I remember the first time I read an article by a prominent vegan--maybe it was David Cantor ?--who Do you agree with that?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

I adopted the cats before I became a vegan, and although I don't like the fact that they eat other animals, it is my responsibility to keep them healthy. (I Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. I intend to stick with rescuing rabbits from now on.) Can we ever meet the needs of fishes by keeping them in our homes?

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 7, 2011

When my husband and I first adopted Baby Sky, several friends and relatives asked, "are you going to make her be a vegan? I'm raising my daughter with a clear, stated ethic: Respect other beings, as no one exists for your benefit. We were presented with animals to eat and wear. We ate and wore them. Animal skin to wear on our feet.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Most of us were born to or adopted by people who eat animals and believe in a god, and that was all a mere accident of birth and/or geography. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Religion agnosticism atheism counter-culture culture veganism. For me, atheism and veganism go hand-in-hand. Am I the only one who sees it this way?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Let's summarize and deconstruct: After a botched execution, Ohio adopted a single-drug formula to replace the three-drug cocktail previously used to kill people. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. But that doesn't mean we should work toward abolishing the death penalty first, and then move to the case of animals.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2011

The former view is the one adopted by Bentham and Mill, and (I believe) by the Utilitarian school generally: and is obviously most in accordance with the universality that is characteristic of their principle. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. or are we to confine our view to human happiness? published in 1874])

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

That's one of the reasons adopting wasn't a stretch for me at all mentally. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. You see midwestern folk in overalls with tired faces.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As for Project Treadstone, there have been three fatalities-by-automobile and one litter of three kittens, two of whom were caught and adopted fairly early. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And he already had two inches of his backbone removed so all that's left is scar tissue unless I'm missing something. My poor boy.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2009

That is, he not only conforms to the principles that he freely adopted but does so because they are principles that he freely and rationally adopted. Kant's ethics is as much an ethics of self-esteem as it is an ethics of duty. This is the person most completely "self-governing."

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

and I spent years with a buzz cut and dressed head-to-toe in black, as a 43-year old soon-to-be adoptive mom, I now appreciate the idea of "normal" more than ever. Tags: Activism Ethics Gray Matters Language. Part of our mission as vegans should be to work to normalize veganism. And though I understand the appeal of "Why Be Normal?"

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

See here.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

See here.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

We’ve been educating, helping and begging people to spay and neuter their animals for years, but three million to four million cats and dogs still die in shelters every year because of simple math: too many animals, not enough worthy adoptive homes. This crisis calls for mandatory spay and neuter legislation. Daphna Nachminovitch Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

Rather than adopt stringent United States animal care standards, which Ringling Bros. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant. In the United States, 10 million fans a year see a Ringling Bros.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

The Argument from Monkeys According to Gerald Carson, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a well-known advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of some eighty ready-to-eat breakfast foods, used to persuade people to adopt vegetarianism in the following way: Dr. Kellogg, a superb publicist, kept a morose chimpanzee, which he used for a stunt.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2008

Hello, I am a volunteer for 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com, which is North America's largest non-profit pet adoption website , and I'm trying to get the word out about homeless pet adoption. I am looking at your site and thought you might like to add a link somewhere to 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

If you'd like to join President Clinton in adopting a heart-healthy vegan diet, you can find menus, recipes, and other meal-planning ideas at the PCRM's 21-Day Vegan Kickstart Mealplan. Colin Campbell) are able to reverse heart disease, and he is trying to be in that 82% so that he can live long enough to enjoy his grandchildren.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Blogging veganism writing. And because of that we should throw everything out there that we can in the service of justice for sentient nonhumans.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2009

Note from KBJ: I'm sure Mylan will agree with me that it would be better, morally, if the vegetarian diet were being adopted for the sake of the animals. In this interview with BBC World Service, Tom Balthazar, deputy mayor of Ghent, explains in more detail why Ghent is going vegetarian on Thursdays.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The younger one gets the loot as soon as that's appropriate, and/or I donate them to the local Foster and Adoptive Parents Association. There are several girls a bit older than Sky on the block who give us lots of goodies. And there's one younger.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

Our recommendation is that shelters determine which animals are adoptable during those hold periods, with those animals made available for adoption or placed in foster care or with rescue organizations. Shelters across the country are required to hold animals to let owners reclaim lost pets.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is to be hoped that the publication of this book will play some role in advancing this great movement, the animal rights movement, toward the third and final stage—the stage of adoption.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 8, 2008

Dog lovers who are unable to make a lifelong commitment to a pet can volunteer with animal shelters and rescue groups, and provide foster care in their home for an animal awaiting permanent adoption. There are better and more fulfilling options for these animals and people who need a doggie fix.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

It also provides money to help farmers adopt alternative approaches to preventing illness among their herds, like cleaner housing and natural supplements. To address this problem, I have introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2007

People who adopt from animal shelters will tell you that it’s not only a rewarding experience, but also that shelters are filled with a smorgasbord of the most amazing, delightful, intelligent dogs you’ll ever find on the planet.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 10, 2007

Producers like me are ready to comply with tough new Environmental Protection Agency regulations that protect the nation’s water supply, by adopting a policy of zero discharge into rivers and streams. The pork industry has acted on its own over the last decade to solve water-discharge problems and create top-shelf manure management systems.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

One simply commands one's dog to sit and simultaneously forms a mental image of him in that position; and as this image is communicated to and received by him by telepathy, he will soon come to adopt the appropriate position.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

If these policies were adopted, small-scale animal agriculture would be a more economical model, and people would eat less meat. In addition, allowing animal waste to be spread on fields at rates higher than can be absorbed, resulting in nutrient runoff and oceanic dead zones, needs to be stopped.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

One ought to adopt the best means. One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. So, if one wants to change the present practice, the best means is to stop eating meat. Consequently, one ought not to eat meat. This seems to be one of Singer’s basic arguments.

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