Animal Ethics

APRIL 20, 2010

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects depictions of animal cruelty. This does not mean that it protects animal cruelty, which is (and ought to be) illegal in every state.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it. PETA urges everyone to avoid this product of cruelty to animals. GABE WALTERS Counsel, PETA Foundation Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is the question whether the wrongness of cruelty to animals depends in part upon the animals' suffering, or whether it does not depend upon that at all, but only upon the bad effects upon human beings of cruelty to animals, and upon the badness of the human states of mind that such cruelty involves.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal Cruelty and Free Speech ” (editorial, Oct. The law speaks specifically and narrowly to the distribution for profit of videos that show illegal acts of cruelty actually being performed on live animals (my italics). Christopher Anne Affleck Cambridge, Mass., Stephen Clark Albany, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options. It is no more acceptable to confine 60 hens for their entire lives in a cage that you report is “about the size of a Ford F-150 pickup truck’s flatbed” than it would be to treat 60 cats similarly.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Code, Title 18.48, made it a federal crime to knowingly create, sell, or possess a depiction of animal cruelty with the intention of placing that depiction in interstate or foreign commerce for commercial gain. I don’t think so.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 18, 2008

I wanted to pass on these amazing groups I'm a part of for possible features/links on your blog: I run Etsy for Animals: Artists Helping Animals, a group of artists and artisans helping animals, many are veg/vegan and donate to animal charities thru sales: [link] Our shop w/100% to animal charity: [link] Vegan Etsy: Creating Without Cruelty: [link] (..)

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 5, 2007

Cruelty to animals on such a scale should be the centerpiece of any discussion on raising animals for food. The problem is that there is no possible answer to why we allow such cruelty, other than that we are barbarians. Is that why we conveniently omit it from all discussion?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts," has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2008

Oprah is discovering just how delicious a heart-healthful, cruelty-free, environmentally-friendly vegan diet can be. Try a cruelty-free vegan diet for 21 days and see how you feel. If you're like most people, you'll feel better physically, spiritually, and ethically, almost immediately. Why not join Oprah in her experiment?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

be they medical, behavioral, placement or training and education so that, in the long run, the cycle of cruelty to animals is broken. The real story here is our tireless commitment to fighting animal cruelty. We constantly stretch our limited resources to save lives as a nonprofit organization.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 1, 2010

Elsewhere in this blog (see here , here , and here ), I have written about ethical synergy , the regularly observed phenomenon that simultaneously showing respect for persons (including oneself), animals, and the environment typically benefits all three groups (including oneself).

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Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

And by this they mean not only that it is wrong to enjoy torturing animals—which few moralists would ever have wished explicitly to deny, however little emphasis they might have placed on cruelty to animals in their moral teaching—but that it is wrong to cause them to suffer unnecessarily. Controversies no doubt remain.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2009

I do not share the extreme vegetarian view that food reform is the foundation of other reforms, for I think it can be shown that all cruelties to animals, whether inflicted in the interests of the dinner-table, the laboratory, the hunting-field, or any other institution, are the outcome of one and the same error—the blindness which can see no unity (..)

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Their interests are primarily protected, if at all, through archaic state anti-cruelty statutes that were not passed in contemplation of the factory-farm or genetic engineering. Their ethological needs and direct interests are neglected to the extent that their needs are not as congruent with higher productivity and profit.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The question is whether becoming a vegetarian in order to protest animal suffering or as a way of committing oneself to feeding the hungry people of the world is good but not obligatory. Suppose first that there is a moral obligation to protest cruelty to animals or to commit onself [ sic ] to feeding the hungry people of the world.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2008

The Westchester chapter of the league is calling on the county executive, Andrew J. Spano, and the mayor of Yonkers, Philip A.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

19): The Supreme Court should reinstate a crucial 1999 federal law banning the commercial sale of videos depicting animal cruelty. To the Editor: Re “ A Free Speech Battle Arises From Videos of Fighting Dogs ” (front page, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2008

Isenhour is charged with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. As a society, we should not tolerate such wanton acts of cruelty. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 14 months in jail and $1,500 in fines. Weigh in: Should Isenhour receive the maximum penalty allowable by law? I hope I'm wrong.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal. Many hunters compound their cruelty by abandoning their dogs when they are no longer of use.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 2, 2007

As you know, the Animal Legal Defense Fund is committed to protecting the lives of animals everywhere. But you may not know that we have filed a lawsuit against Mendes Calf Ranch for its violation of California animal cruelty laws. Information about the campaign can be found here.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

As for charity fundraisers, they don't have to support animal cruelty on a massive scale to be effective. that don't involve the callous disregard of animal interests. These latter fundraisers are the types of events that ethically-minded individuals should be celebrating and encouraging both in print and in practice.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 19, 2007

The horrific practice in China of skinning cats and dogs alive for their fur must go down as one of the worst cases of sustained mass cruelty to animals in human history. They are left to die slowly in shock and excruciating agony and their bodies fed to the other animals being reared for the slaughter.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2008

Also Animal Attraction is donating at least $100,000 to various animal charities next month (April is animal cruelty prevention month) to give back to the community we all adore—our pets! The bride was walked down the aisle by her standard poodle, John. Joanne Poesch

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Bullfighting is simply prolonged animal torture. Most children start life with a love and reverence of animals. Cruelty and disregard for them are taught. To the Editor: Re “ Child Matadors Draw Olés in Mexico’s Bullrings ” (front page, Nov. 19): It is so sad to see children being taught to torture and kill calves.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2007

The use of animals in entertainment when animal cruelty is involved is deplorable, whether it is dog fighting or bull riding. Brad Goldberg President, Animal Welfare Trust Mamaroneck, N.Y., Corporations should reject the notion that this is a sport worthy of their ad dollars. 11, 2007

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2010

I am not saying that it is not a good thing that quite apart from food-reform, anti-vivisectionists should be denouncing the doings of the Scientific Inquisition, while humanitarians of another school are exposing the horrors of sport, for Cruelty is a many-headed monster, and there must at times be a concentration of energy on a particular spot; but (..)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Bloomberg, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the City Council for ignoring the plight of these horses. Thousands of New Yorkers and visitors have signed petitions demanding an end to the senseless tragedies and inhumane treatment of these gentle giants. Shame on Mayor Michael R.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty. Brad Goldberg President Animal Welfare Advocacy Mamaroneck, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

We can willfully contribute to the prosperity of factory farmers who profit from the mistreatment of animals, or we can refuse to support factory farmers with our purchases and purchase cruelty-free plant-based meals instead. Factory farmers are worried about their future livelihoods, and they should be.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: Re “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2008

The basic theriophobic stance is one of disgust at "brutish", "bestial", or "animalistic" traits that are suspiciously more frequently predicted of men than of beasts, just as the types of behavior in which these traits are exhibited (egoism, insatiable greed, insatiable sexuality, cruelty, the gratuitous slaughter of other species, and the mass extermination (..)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

The Traités edited by Dumont condemn cruelty to animals only—if Dumont can be trusted—on the ground that it can give rise to indifference to human suffering. It is enough that they are capable of suffering. In his later writings, however, Bentham reverted to something more like the Aquinas-Kant position.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. To the Editor: As sponsors of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , we take issue with Christa Weil’s views on the horsemeat industry ( Op-Ed , March 5).

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

This approach to animal suffering allows us to reach a happy compromise between the utilitarian and non-utilitarian approaches to the problem of cruelty to animals. But I see no reason to admit this premise.

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