Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

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

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow. Tags: oceans marine animals. But I may not find one. And, at this point, I'd rather have oceans with healthy fisheries for the seafood industry than those without any fisheries left at all.

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Critter News

JULY 6, 2009

The two parties settled in a lawsuit filed by the advocacy group four years ago after the group were unable to obtain information they requested. Tags: animal experimentation animal research humane society USDA medical research.

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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." It's not about making a gigantic group even bigger. But that's not the telling item.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". Showing people what goes on at "free-range" farms, for me, has always been a powerful part of my vegan advocacy efforts because that's always the fall-back position of the person I'm speaking with. (As

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