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. For an attorney, that's awfully weak.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. Applying it to nonhuman animals is a stretch. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 18, 2011
But for seven hours on Friday night, at a restaurant appropriately known as Animal, three chefs presented an eight-course meal that was nothing short of a glorification of this soon-to-be-outlawed delicacy. In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2011
Therefore, we are the only ones who should have rights. Of course, there are also religious and science types that would argue that it is those very qualities that do not make us superior, but rather stewards. What laws should be in effect, blah, blah (I could go on and on. ).
Animal Person
JUNE 23, 2010
At minute #9 for me last night was a young woman going through one of the obstacle courses and getting pummeled, just like everyone else. The commentator says that part of her winnings will go to abolish animal cruelty (yes, abolish). They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. But that wasn't it either.
Animal Ethics
MAY 4, 2008
There is no inconsistency in rejecting plant rights while accepting animal rights. If Smith thinks that plant rights and animal rights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 2, 2006
Bush signed the “ Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ” into law this past Monday (November 27, 2006). The law protects animal enterprises from courses of conduct designed to disrupt their normal profitable functioning. The new law is chilling both in its scope and in its narrowness. On November 4, 2005, Rep.
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