Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. would call HSUS an animal rights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).
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. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.
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Critter News
MARCH 19, 2009
"Our Pork Quality Assurance Plus and Transport Quality Assurance Programs are designed to demonstrate the care we are giving to our animals everyday on our farms," Cunningham said. The only real concern comes from the spread of illness to humans from eating diseased meat, but they only need to provide minimal care to avoid that.
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." The chef's perspective is represented by Dan Barber, who serves Eggleston's meat. It's not an ostensible paradox; it's an actual paradox.
Animal Person
JUNE 6, 2009
We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism. So, I thought you could be interested in helping us to raise the funds. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. The idea is not to focus on conditions -though they are unavoidably visible- but on exploitation itself.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already. We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets?
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2008
For we must realize that the question is whether this justifies the eating of animals in comparison with alternatives. And there are two relevant kinds of alternatives here: one is treating the animals better before we eat them, the only disadvantage of which is that it would make meat considerably more expensive.
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