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On Responding to Jokes that Feature Animal Abuse

Animal Person

Why is the torture and slaughter of sentient nonhumans to satisfy one's taste buds so easily made into a joke by some people? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights humor Veganism. Would anyone (particularly a non-Jew) ever think it's acceptable to tell me jokes that featured mockery of my beliefs?

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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

Animal Person

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone.

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Undercover Video Sparks Calls for Canadian Ban on Horse Meat

Critter News

Animal rights groups are calling for a ban on the sale of horse meat after disturbing video at a slaughterhouse in west Quebec was sent to the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. Excerpted from CTV.CA. The footage was shot with a hidden camera inside Les Viandes de la Petite Nation near Montebello.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.