Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2012

I had suspected Animal Liberation Front may have been involved and now they are in fact claiming responsibility for it with multiple details," Harris wrote. He called it a terrorist action. "I

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

One of the more distressing aspects of the animal liberation movement is the failure of almost all its exponents to draw a sharp distinction between the very different plights (and rights) of wild and domestic animals. Domestic animals are creations of man. But this is not true of cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Concern for animal (and plant) rights and well-being is as fundamental to the land ethic as to the humane ethic, but the difference between naturally evolved and humanly bred species is an essential consideration for the one, though not for the other. (

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. Why wouldn’t they?

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