Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. She had one perfect opportunity to present herself as pro-animal rights when Oprah (laughingly) asked: But what if the cows and the chickens are treated really, really nicely. Nothing wrong with any of that.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois.

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Animal Person

JUNE 1, 2009

Steve Best's verbal presentation of his ideas sometimes irks me. But " Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism " is a great look back at how we humans have managed to always find a way to consider ourselves unique, despite what the reality of the nonhuman world tells us.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Bev Eggleston EcoFriendly Foods Gourmet magazine happy meat Humane slaughter Temple Grandin. It is murder.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

Accordingly, we oppose the use of devices such as electric prods, sharpened sticks, spurs, flank straps, and other rodeo equipment that cause animals to react violently, and we oppose bull riding, bronco riding, steer roping, calf roping, "wild horse racing," chuck wagon racing, steer tailing, and horse tripping.

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Animal Person

JULY 23, 2009

How successful they are at creating new vegans or animal rights advocates depends on many factors. . Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Language. Plus, selling it is a bit different as the quality of the writing and the story is of paramount importance. Books are obvious opportunities for advocacy and vegan education.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And he presents a pretty compelling argument by basically describing how little regard Emily really has for me and how quickly she'll shred my hand (although she behaves very differently with Baby Sky, interestingly. As much as I might love Emily (our kitty), the way Masson sees it, she doesn't love me back in the same way.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

I've been out of every loop I used to be in because my work outside of veganism and animal rights came a-calling in a most critical way. But when my dad, whose favorite food is kielbasa, says he wants to go vegan (which made his 76th birthday present a cinch--a box of vegan cookbooks!), Tags: Activism Current Affairs.

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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 Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

The Argument from Animal Rights A stronger argument is made by people who maintain that animals have rights. In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life. So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

And in retrospect, all that did was present me as someone who appeared to have a need to be different or special, and a need for everyone to know what I believed in, whether or not they even cared. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Blogging veganism writing.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. This one gives us a look inside the mind of the vivisectionist, Daniel Engber.

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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. It is highly unlikely, given the present policy of the United States government, that surplus grain, even if it were available, would be shipped to the most needy people.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. In contrast, abstract-rational entities, like personhood or rights, are not. Tags: Activism Language. I don't think it's one or the other.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call. Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! I heard a sonorous trumpet coming from a large flock of feeding sandhills, and I jolted to attention.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. So, if one wants to change the present practice, the best means is to stop eating meat. First, it is dubious that becoming a vegetarian would have much effect on present practice.

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