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.

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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

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 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. I want people to see my family as "normal."

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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 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 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

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

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 Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

That's one of the reasons adopting wasn't a stretch for me at all mentally. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. I don't care about scale.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

One ought to adopt the best means. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. 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.

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