Animal Person
JULY 19, 2009
What's interesting to me today, however, is the process of "the flip" (my term). The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animal rights" and "abolition." Once again, the people wrote the rules (43).
Animal Person
JANUARY 6, 2010
The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?
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Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2008
The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. What an utterly grotesque project.
Animal Person
APRIL 26, 2009
Free Speech may be a noble ideal, but perhaps we are better served by thinking of it not only as a right but also as a privilege. They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? Or don't they because animals we use for food are not thought by the masses as victims of cruelty? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive?
Animal Person
JULY 17, 2009
Do you use the idea of "evil" in your thinking and processing of animal rights and veganism? Tags: Ethics Language. Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway? Is evil an excuse we make for people?
Animal Person
MARCH 30, 2009
Many vegans and animal rights activists "have a book in them" but soon discover, despite their well-crafted book proposal and sample chapters, that most mainstream publishers aren't interested. Tags: Books Current Affairs Economics. Though I'm not sure about that--it might have been--I'll find out next week.
Animal Person
JULY 22, 2009
Maybe sugar processed with bone char isn't worth boycotting a restaurant over. I'm not saying give up on "animal rights," either. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. And they're all pretty obvious. As for the less obvious (gelatin in tires? Maybe it is. I'd rather trap a feral cat and have her spayed.
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