Critter News
JANUARY 16, 2011
In order to offset the loss of the seal product market in Europe, Canada has made a deal with China. Although 40 Chinese animal rights groups have protested, they don't really have any political or financial clout to change anything. I'm not surprised.
Critter News
DECEMBER 15, 2011
A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. government Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of a rarely used law they say treats them like terrorists if they cause a loss in profits for businesses that use or sell animal products. Read the full article in the Washington Post.
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Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. restaurants by animal rights activists." Notwithstanding their local tactical victories, are animal rights protesters really as effective as they appear?
Critter News
APRIL 4, 2009
The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.
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.
Animal Person
MAY 26, 2010
That original thought was a true statement, as free-range, grass-fed beef requires so much expense and land and water that not as many animals can be sustained as in an intensive farming situation. However, it wasn't honest of me to promote such products because my goal, after all, is for us to not use animals.
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. Eating meat from animals fed on waste products would be a way of saving grain that could be shipped to the hungry people of the world.
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