Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc.
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
I think of "old speciesism" as analogous to racism and sexism in that it is exploitation based on species. The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.
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Animal Person
JUNE 16, 2010
" Creature Quotes: Advancing Toward Freedom For All Species ," compiled and edited by SBH Clay, is now available. From the Introduction : "Humans are fascinated by animals. For all our devotion, though, we sometimes seem not to recognize the needs and wants of animals. Coetzee The Lives of Animals veganism. There is pain.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2013
Most of the people debating this issue are for conservation, they are against wild areas being destroyed and wild species being threatened with extinction. In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare.
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