Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane."

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Advocacy Game Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) Tags: animal research. Here's a group I've never heard of. These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.

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Groups Advocacy Biomedical Research Animal Research 100

Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Tags: activism musings animal rights animal welfare.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Factory Farm 100

Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

With more than 2 million members across the globe, PETA is the largest animal advocacy group and comparable in size to the human rights organization, Amnesty International. First, note that now PeTA is an "animal advocacy group." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. But that's not the telling item.

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Animal Advocacy PETA Animal Advocacy 100