Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate".

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights." They've hijacked enough already!

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Let's deconstruct: The interview reminds me of how the industry views us and how little they know about the community of people who care about the lives of the animals brought into this world for one reason only: to kill and eat them.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

However, there's a context here, and that context is that the message is coming from an organization that focuses on the science angle of our use of sentient nonhumans (i.e., animals in research, in schools or as food). And they concentrate on the health aspects of removing animals from your diet.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

It's off to a promising start and includes a promising end: The HSUS opposes rodeos as they are commonly organized, since they typically cause torment and stress to animals; expose them to pain, injury, or even death; and encourage an insensitivity to and acceptance of the inhumane treatment of animals in the name of sport.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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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.

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

Other than being a vegan, the most important actions you can take to help animals who are used for food are: Give generously to organizations that help those sentient nonhumans directly, such as Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary , Maple Farm Sanctuary , Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary and Eastern Shore Sanctuary.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2008

First of all, I want to tell you how much I enjoy Animal Ethics. What makes the site special is that a portion of every sale is donated to animal rights and rescue organizations. If the majority of your blog readers are animal lovers like me, then I know they’d love my site. I read it all the time.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2007

Here is a website that contains much useful information about animal ethics. It appears to be organized around Regan's book Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights. I'm not sure what relation it bears to Tom Regan, the philosopher from North Carolina State University.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

I am the Interim Executive Director of two organizations that help former foster youth (the same orgs I chaired for a couple of years, but resigned from the boards to take this position), and it's only for a couple of months and as I always say, I can do just about anything for a couple of months. It's comical. It's absurd.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. We would be pleased if you would support us by announcing the book in your Blog (Newsletters, Website etc.). We really appreciate it!

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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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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Need reminding why cruelty to animals is wrong? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My original blogroll included people/organizations that informed my journey and it brought me much criticism and labeled me a "new welfarist" and brought me all kinds of grief. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Blogging veganism writing.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. None of these organizations requires a vegetarian commitment. For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). This is not a book about animal rights, and some might say Foer gets animal rights wrong as his only reference is PETA. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Oprah's a huge Heifer International fan, and how people who are concerned with justice can give to that organization shocks me. Injustice wears many masks, but behind them all is the same face: the belief that you have the right to use and profit from someone else's life.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The ability to feel pain is not an obviously plausible way of morally distinguishing microorganisms from other organisms. The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? The very name “vegetarian” suggests that these individuals eat plants, which are living organisms. Why wouldn’t they?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

More important, it might be a much more efficient means of changing practice to stage protests at meat-packing companies, put pressure on congressmen, and work through existing humane organizations. One suspects that the SPCA and the American Humane Society have done more to stop cruelty to animals than vegetarians ever could.

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