Critter News

JUNE 21, 2009

From the Humane Society's press release. Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. The voice, which we soon learns belongs to wildlife photographer Richard Moore, exclaims, “Migration is on!” ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

From the Introduction : "Humans are fascinated by animals. We unwittingly partake of activities that hurt, physically and mentally, the very creatures we admire and seek to protect from harm (5).". Do human beings have duties toward them regardless of whether they have rights? Do animals have rights? What kind do we have?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. And embattled minority should be protected. Should lends itself to advocacy, a crucial aspect of conservation.

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