Animal Ethics

JANUARY 3, 2007

Hi Keith, Farm Sanctuary’s Farm Animal Forum will be here before we know it! Would you be interested in helping us promote this event by posting the notice below? Philadelphia, PA Find out how you can become an active participant in national efforts to protect farm animals from abuse at this one-day conference.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2007

If there were transparency to the public spectacle of bull riding, it would be clear that this is a frantically scared animal desperately trying to escape. Bull riding events in rodeos are notorious for using spurs, flank straps and electric prods to promote bucking and to control the bull.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 26, 2008

See here for video footage of the event. Do you believe that a warmer globe would be bad for animals, all things considered? The 160-square-mile chunk broke apart in Western Antarctica in what is called the Wilkins Ice Shelf. Note from KBJ: I have a question for you, Mylan. If so, what is the basis of your belief?

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 8, 2008

But if everyone affected by the act is to be considered, are we to consider the animals affected by our acts? As we saw earlier, virtually all utilitarians, present-day as well as classical, have wanted the scope of the principle of utility extended to animals, or, in any event, to the 'higher' animals.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2008

The Michael Vick case shed light on the disgrace of those who cause dogs to fight each other, an event often accompanied by drug sales and prostitution. The animals are forced to fight through beatings, starvation, being thrown at each other, being made to attack smaller animals thrown at them, and worse.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This blog is an up-to-date listing of the exciting news and events happening around the farm at both our New York and California Shelters. Hi Keith, I wanted to make sure you knew that Farm Sanctuary has officially launched its new shelter blog, “Sanctuary Tails,” which can be viewed here. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 23, 2008

There’s no guarantee, but you can dramatically lower the risk of a cardiac event if you pay attention to these issues." Watch your weight and your blood pressure and your cholesterol, and if you have diabetes, keep that under control. Take an aspirin every day. Eliminate meat. Emphasis added.

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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.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

But there is a net loss in all meat production, not just of farmed fish or feeding fish to land animals being raised for food. Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Danielle Kichler Washington, Nov. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

MAY 30, 2009

For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y pernir —rice, beans and pork—that I have eaten at countless family holidays and special events. Sonia Sotomayor, " A Latina Judge's Voice ," Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 13 [2002]: 87-93, at 88) Note from KBJ: Does Judge Sotomayor have empathy for animals?

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