Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. There are currently 112 comments on this article.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But let's stick to the animal rights issue. This animal was seriously compromised by being in unnatural conditions and given unnatural substances. What is sad is that Travis' mother was also shot and killed for aggressive behavior. What were they thinking?) That image was wrong on so many levels. This is serious stuff.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism. which includes a poll. There is an elephant who deperately needs our help.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

By abusing evolutionary biology in this way, we are able to read back the sophisticated conduct of people into the animal behavior that prefigures it. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands.

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