Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Before the ruling, PETA’s attorney Jeffrey Kerr told HuffPost that the animal rights group’s argument was based on the belief that “slavery doesn’t depend upon the species of the slave, any more than it depends upon the race, gender or ethnicity of the slave. As such, Plaintiffs are held in slavery and involuntary servitude.”

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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. That's respect.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

There are dog fights and dog attacks in Portugal and, per the December 5 post , the government came up with some legislation without consulting any animal rights groups. ANIMAL says that the legislation is not effective and is too loose. At least they are doing something about it. I'm pretty shocked about that.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

Citing abilities such as nonhuman great apes' ability to learn human languages suggest that animal rights advocates seek nonhuman participation in human society. We're not asking that any nonhumans have freedom of speech or voting rights. Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism.

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Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being. And without their well-run breeding programs, many exotic species really could soon disappear from Earth for good.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Families are just as capable of horrendous policies toward animals as anyone else. Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. Just ask former cattle rancher Howard Lyman , who is now a vegan and animal rights activist. But so are family farms. I don't care about scale.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Animal rights types start emerging from the woodwork and comparing conservationists to Nazis, obsessing about the purity of a species (see attempts to control Ruddy Ducks to save White-headed Ducks).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Though most people don't think about it this way, when you choose to eat animals or wear animals or use products that were tested on animals or have animal byproducts in them, you are choosing harm. You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter. You are choosing violence.

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

(As you are likely aware, very few people can actually get through the film in one sitting, plus the first third, about "pets," sends the troublesome message that puppy mills are the problem, rather than breeding in general.)

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Actually, I'd like to recreate the environment that once existed, where we all learned from each other and supported each other and were simply trying to all figure out how to get the average person--particularly as represented by the mainstream media--to wake up from the slumber of injustice our culture breeds.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work. But that's now what happened.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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