Critter News

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Johannesburg - A Bloemfontein man received a criminal record on Friday for a "backyard experiment" on a pregnant monkey, the NSPCA said. The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey. She said the monkey's infant was removed by Caesarean section on October 31.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about a vegetarian restaurant in (of all places) France.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

The Argument from Monkeys According to Gerald Carson, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a well-known advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of some eighty ready-to-eat breakfast foods, used to persuade people to adopt vegetarianism in the following way: Dr. Kellog [sic] drew the conclusion “Eat what the monkey eats—our nearest relative.”

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The evidence available to date about the rational capacities of animals is far from complete, but to date it appears to be decidedly unfavourable to the view that any animals possess the relevant moral capacities.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 5, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Monkeys Think, Moving Artificial Arm as Own ” (front page, May 29): The brain really is a fascinating organ. So why were the monkeys used? Marc Bekoff Boulder, Colo., May 29, 2008 The writer is in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Colorado.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

Georgia State and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development still support language training and cognitive research with four chimpanzees, and do other cognitive research work with resident populations of macaques and rhesus monkeys. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild?

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Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism. For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post.

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