Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

As an organization comprising dog trainers, behaviorists and other animal professionals, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers is aware that any dog can bite, any dog can maim and any dog can kill. A dangerous or vicious dog is a product of a combination of individual genetics, upbringing, socialization and lack of proper training.

New York Times 40

New York Times Pit Bulls New York Breeders 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild? They're wild animals!

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Apes Georgia 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2008

Those sailors and marines will succeed because of the intense training they have undergone—training that included use of active sonar to find enemy submarines. During training with active sonar, we protect marine mammals by employing rigorous protective measures. The United States Fifth Fleet will prevent that from happening.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York United States Whales 40

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 19, 2008

That set in motion a great train of events. The whales were frozen in by ice floes on their southward migration from the arctic. Somebody spotted them surfacing in a waterhole and contacted authorities. Volunteers made their way to the scene, machinery was moved in, and rescue efforts commenced.

Whales 40

Whales Whaling Alaska Campaign 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

To train them to fight one another, and then to kill the losers of these fights, is barbaric beyond words. Is there anything creepier than dog fighting? How could someone support, much less organize, such a vile practice? Dogs evolved with humans. They are our trusted friends and companions.

Michael Vick 40

Michael Vick Dogs Laws Killing 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

New York Times 40

New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. What is forbidden meat?

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Moreover, there is always a problem of what to do with the animal when they go on holiday. which rears the animals, house-trains them, supplies them to any willing purchaser, takes them back, exterminates them and supplies replacements, on demand. Suppose, indeed, that a company grows up, 'Disposapup Ltd.',

Puppies 40

Puppies Kennels Pets Dogs 40