Critter News
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
According to the indictment, unsealed today, DeMuth committed "animal enterprise terrorism and cause[d] economic damage to the animal enterprise in an amount exceeding $10,000" between Nov. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for vandalizing two labs and three offices at the University of Iowa on Nov.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2008
California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. These animals are denied movement and cut open for his insane, unscientific studies. Justice's hammer falls again and again until it ends when the price is a helpless animals life, --Feminists for Animal Liberation.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 28, 2008
From this perspective, the animal-rights debate seems considerably less urgent and a relatively "safe" area of controversy. One wonders why here (as elsewhere) there is so much concern for the plight of animals and evidently so little for that of humans.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 19, 2009
It is a merit of utilitarianism, with its stress on happiness and unhappiness, that lower animals must be considered along with human beings, so that they are not debarred from full or direct consideration because they are not "rational." Perhaps Smart was still thinking (in 1980) of Kant versus Bentham, rationality versus sentience.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 10, 2008
It would only be surprising to one who assumes that my case for animal liberation is based upon rights and, in particular, upon the idea of extending rights to animals. I make very little use of the word 'rights' in Animal Liberation , and I could easily have dispensed with it altogether.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 4, 2008
For the record, I am opposed to violence in behalf of animals. I can't think of anything that does more harm to the cause of animal liberation. In the long run, the best thing we can do for animals is engage in rational persuasion. You might wonder how this could work. You might wonder how this could work.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
Wild animals and native plants have a particular place in nature, according to the land ethic, which domestic animals (because they are products of human art and represent an extended presence of human beings in the natural world) do not have. On the top, from left to right, distinguish between (nonhuman) animals and plants.
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