Critter News
MARCH 7, 2012
The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.”
Critter News
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I do believe they want prestige, tenure, royalties and patent rights. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. The other women wouldn't.
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Animal Ethics
JULY 30, 2007
It may of course be denied that we have duties to animals. Ritchie, for instance, implies that we have not a duty to animals except in a sense like that in which the owner of an historic house may be said to have a duty to the house. We have a tendency to think that not every duty incumbent on one person involves a right in another.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
At the same time the field is somewhat lacking in people unconcerned with habitat or wild animals, but if Linda says that they do more damage to permafrost than oil companies dumping 94 thousand gallons of oil laced water on the environment, who am I to argue? How it is being affected by human intrusions? Who its predators were?
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering.
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