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Tom Regan on Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Cruelty is manifested in different ways. The central case of cruelty appears to be the case where, in Locke's apt phrase, one takes "a seeming kind of Pleasure" in causing another to suffer. Let us term this sadistic cruelty. Cruelty of either kind, sadistic or brutal, can be manifested in active or passive behavior.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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" It affects the way we think about animals, and affects our views on animal cruelty. Snakes are highly specialized animals, who have undergone major evolutionary changes to their body & behavior to survive. This is where I'd like to bring up "anthropomorphic bias."

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From the Mailbag

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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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: “ For ‘Animal Precinct,’ Reality Subject to Dispute ” (news article, July 23) missed the entire point of comprehensive animal welfare: that effective animal welfare requires both response and prevention. The real story here is our tireless commitment to fighting animal cruelty.

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Enjoy of the Ethical Synergy of Healthy Eating in 2010!

Animal Ethics

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). The Bottom Line: And this time I do mean BOTTOM line!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates. March 27, 2007 To the Editor: Livestock producers raise their animals under humane standards and under the care of a veterinarian. Eating dead animals and animal products is bad for people, bad for animals and bad for the planet.