Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2011

An animal rights group claims the dogs were killed inhumanely by an outdoor adventure company and thrown into a mass grave. Local media reports say business slumped after the 2010 Winter Olympics and the dogs were no longer needed. The company could not be reached for comment.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Cruelty is manifested in different ways. The central case of cruelty appears to be the case where, in Locke's apt phrase, one takes "a seeming kind of Pleasure" in causing another to suffer. Let us term this sadistic cruelty. Cruelty of either kind, sadistic or brutal, can be manifested in active or passive behavior.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. One suspects that the SPCA and the American Humane Society have done more to stop cruelty to animals than vegetarians ever could. But my eating meat is not such a necessary condition for cruelty to animals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. A brief look at the public outcry concerning Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring shows just how widely accepted premise (1) is. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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