What's the Difference Between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights?
Critter News
JUNE 4, 2009
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Animal Welfare at Change.org
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Did you see that Change.org now has an Animal Welfare page? is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights. Ernst believes we don't have a right to use sentient nonhumans and all of her posts (and those of Alex Melonas, who also posts at animalrights.change.org) are unequivocal about animal use.
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EU Sends Inspectors to Portugal for Farm Animal Welfare
Critter News
DECEMBER 28, 2009
The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare.
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Another Fake Animal Welfare Group
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2009
I was browsing for some quotes when I came across this group - The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). They had a page with quotes from animal rights activists, but as I was reading, I noticed that they were very unfavorable quotes from such activists as Wayne Pacelle and Ingrid Newkirk. Who are these guys?
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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).
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On "Animal Rights Conferences"
Animal Person
MARCH 28, 2009
" Two Animal Rights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. I don't know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is international if that matters.
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Critter News
JANUARY 12, 2009
Tags: islam animal rights animal welfare.
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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Tags: activism musings animal rights animal welfare. This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!)
Animal Welfare Concerns May Be Influencing UK Animal Research
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2012
This article in the Herald Tribune claims that animal rights is winning out over animal research. I would take the article with a grain of salt. I've read the same on the other side. It depends on who's writing the article of course.I think it's still a long, long fight. But perhaps these are positive signs.
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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. And one of that handful is the environment.
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Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Animals Australia has a video on its website showing calves being roughly dragged off utes and thrown to the ground. Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.
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100 Quebec to Review Puppy Mill Laws
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
The fallout from the huge puppy mill seizure is fueling calls for a review of Quebec's animal rights laws, which are abysmal even for Canada. Animal welfare workers are calling for stricter laws on breeding facilities after more than 500 allegedly malnourished dogs were seized from a Quebec puppy farm last week.
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SAEN Files Complaints Against University of Washington Again
Critter News
MAY 2, 2012
An animal-rights group that watchdogs research facilities across the country has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, citing multiple incidents in which animals were injured, escaped from their cages or were found dead. From the normantranscript.com.
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EU Bans Battery Cages
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2012
1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.
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100 Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.
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100 Quebec is the Best Province to be an Animal Abuser
Critter News
MAY 23, 2011
An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record. That sucks. From the Montreal Gazette.
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Bullfighting to Appear on Spanish TV Again
Critter News
AUGUST 31, 2012
The move immediately provoked anger from animal rights activists, who felt they were making headway against the spectacle after Catalonia banned bullfighting within its region last year on animal welfare grounds. "It
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Air Canada Feeling Pressure to Stop Shipping Lab Monkeys
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2011
Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. In our opinion, Air Canada is not legally obligated to accept monkeys as cargo," said the opinion written by Lawyers for Animal Welfare.
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Pork Industry Moving into Defensive Mode
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animal welfare. Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animal welfare factory farm animal welfare.
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Halal Slaughter Causing a Furor In Quebec
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2012
Quebec is not known for its animal welfare concerns or laws. I think the issue stems from this being an Islamic practice and the fear of contaminated meat, not concern for the animals. From JTA, the Global News Service of the Jewish People.
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Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom
Critter News
APRIL 22, 2010
An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.
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100 Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. From the MetroWest Daily News.
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100 R. G. Frey on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
MAY 14, 2008
The question of whether animals possess rights is once again topical, largely as a result of the recent surge of interest in animal welfare and in the moral pros and cons of eating animals and using them in scientific research. Arguments to show that animals do have rights, therefore, are at a premium. (
Big Ag Fighting Back with PR
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2009
Clearly the animal rights community is much more emboldened and aggressive than they have been in the past," said {National Milk Producers Federation} spokesman Chris Galen. "We Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. So, now you just try to spend more money to spread more lies. We need to play offense."
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100 Stephanie Ernst Leaves Change.org
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2009
However, I certainly tried to read Stephanie Ernst's posts at Change.org's Animal Rights blog. Now I find out from Digging Through the Dirt that Stephanie has left and started a new project called Animal Rights & Anti-Oppresssion. There is a huge difference in what each term conveys and the movement it describes.
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Our Strange Relationship with Animals
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
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Bob Barker Offers to Pay to Move Canadian Elephants to Sanctuary
Critter News
DECEMBER 19, 2011
I hope, when I reach their age, I'm as active and effective as Bob Barker and Betty White are in the animal rights movement. Toronto city council voted in October to move the elephants to a facility run by PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Galt, Calif., Excerpted from CBC News. called ARK 2000.
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100 Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. I’ve written before at length about how conservation and animal rights , while often drawing on mutual a reverence of nature, are different beasts. To a point.
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Charles River Labs Continues Expanding
Critter News
APRIL 27, 2010
Charles River Labs, a company which develops drugs and conducts contract animal testing, has an atrocious animal rights record, although they deny it of course. The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animal welfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China.
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100 Komen and KFC: A Match Made in Hell
Critter News
MAY 17, 2010
Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. It's not just a question of animal rights. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g. for cancer research. That stuff is horrible!
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 11, 2010
The International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ), is a non-profit organization working to save animals in crisis worldwide, to help protect our oceans’ whale population. IFAW advocates for the protection of wildlife in their habitats, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and rescues individual animals.
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100 Radlo Foods Pledging Conversion to Cage-Free Eggs
Critter News
APRIL 10, 2009
In a written statement the company said it was making the move after an investigation revealed that Radlo Foods violated the terms of an agreement by working with a farm that is not in compliance with its strict animal welfare standards. The group's findings have now triggered an investigation by the state's Animal Welfare Program.
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On The Goode Family and Infiltration
Animal Person
MAY 28, 2009
One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. macworld.com). takepart.com).
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100 Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer. I received an alert from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Good way to end 2010. Here's the story as reported in NewsWest. ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP)
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Conklin Farm Owner Will Not Face Charges
Critter News
JULY 10, 2010
Phillips said threats of violence and murder made by animal-rights activists against the Conklins are still under review and information may be forwarded to the U.S. Attorney's Office for possible charges under the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
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World Animal Day in Minsk
Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2008
City Fauna and another animal welfare charity named Ehida brought around 40 pets from their shelters to the park on Sunday in an attempt to re-home them. They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters. Byalyanava said.
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Sarah Palin's Sellout of a Speechwriter
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Seems that the guy that wrote Sarah Palin's convention speech was none other then noted conservative and alleged animal rights supporter Matthew Scully. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though.
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Ringling Brother Accused of Violating ESA
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. of violating the Endangered Species Act when it uses bullhooks and chains to control its performing pachyderms.
Bob Barker Donates $1.5 Million to LA Zoo
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
Some animal-rights activists said the area still would not provide enough roaming room, and Los Angeles City Councilman Tony Cardenas suggested that the zoo’s lone Asian elephant be sent instead to the Performing Animal Welfare Society, a sanctuary in San Andreas. The donation will go towards moving Billy to PAWS.
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When conservation and animal rights collide
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.
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On The Respectful Emperor
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. People are talking.
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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.
On "Compassion," "Nonviolence" and "Justice"
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animal rights. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. Why all the quotation marks?
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100 Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language Animal Rights Animal Welfare Compassion in World Farming World Farming.
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