Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole.

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. More >> Animals. Today is the launch of. Also, it has the added bonus of organizing my content better than I have. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts.

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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

APRIL 1, 2010

Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g., intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird).

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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 Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on.

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

We are overfishing, over-trawling, and mutilating and slaughtering bycatch by the millions of tons (17-39 million tons/year, not including marine mammals, sea bids and some invertebrates). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganism.

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