Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

I'm reading a book about women in the American abolitionist movement. There are a lot of similarities between that movement and today's animal rights movement (such as it is.but that's another post). Just look at the pro-life movement. Where is that religious outrage over the treatment of animals?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Unfortunately, once we discuss anything beyond this basic point, people vastly disagree on what is right and wrong. The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. This makes perfect sense.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

I not only learned about Harvey Milk, but about the early stages of the gay rights movement (which is ongoing today when one looks at all the right-wing flutterings over gay marriage.) It made me think though about the animal rights movement. Are we really a social movement like gay rights and civil rights?

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. Each side wants their use of "animal rights" to amass the most territory (the most votes, the most users), which will make theirs the winner of the common usage contest, where majority rules.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

If Smith thinks that plant rights and animal rights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient. Addendum: Smith appears not to understand the animal-rights movement.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

The essential point is that the ecosystems of New Zealand were unable to cope with mammals, the organisms lacked the ability to defend themselves from the very different problems posed by mammal predation. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached.

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