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The Philosophy of Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

We met in graduate school at the University of Arizona in 1983. Mylan Engel Jr and Kathie Jenni are the authors of this book. Mylan is a longtime contributor to this blog.

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Phoenix Restaurant Serves Lion Burgers

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A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. But the burgers also attracted international attention and the scorn of animal rights activists, who picketed outside the restaurant.

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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A recent agreement between farmers and animal rights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say.

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On Wipeout and Lion Burgers

Animal Person

And no amount of donations to groups that supposedly want to abolish animal cruelty is going to make up for the fact that until you stop having animals killed for you you are part of the problem. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat.

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Mylan

Animal Ethics

We went to graduate school together at the University of Arizona. Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. Mylan worked in epistemology. I worked in ethics.

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Twenty Years Ago

Animal Ethics

Someone entered the premises of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum , cut the lock on the bighorn sheep exhibit, and shot the male bighorn to death. Needless to say, animal-rights and other groups are up in arms. There was a senseless killing last night. Then—and here's the grisly part—the assailant cut the sheep's head off.

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Twenty Years Ago

Animal Ethics

My original interest was narrow: animal rights. After arriving at the University of Arizona to attend graduate school [in August 1983], my interests expanded even further, into other branches of philosophy. As I explained to Clark, I came at philosophy in an odd way.

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