Critter News

OCTOBER 1, 2008

“Greenpeace has absolutely no voice in Russia,” said Natalia Paslavskaya, director of 2nd Fur Salon, one of the most exclusive fur boutiques in Russia that caters to the most sophisticated clientele, usually able to afford paying $250,000 for a signature fur coat and ordering a new one every year.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I've always thought of horse-drawn carriages the way I think about greyhound racing or fur: Most people are against them, so why are they still around? The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages calls itself "an animal rights-protection-abolitionist organization," which I find interesting.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Many bloggers who are pro-animal rights have either not used Google's AdSense or stopped because they discovered that, for instance, their anti-fur post was surrounded by ads for fur. pro creating-animals-to-skin-them-for-their-fur. pro creating-animals-to-skin-them-for-their-fur.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) will be staging protests at this fur store in Everett, WA. Fieck Furs. Here is their idea of a fur coat. Tags: seattle fur. The company is Terry L. Nice and GREEN! Literally and sarcastically.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

The post in the ANIMAL blog is in Portuguese , but here's the gist of it. A British student studying in Porto, Portugal, was handing out leaflets in front of "Beigel," a fur shop. She was volunteering for ANIMAL. Tags: fur portugal. She had already been threatened by the owner on Wednesday for trespassing on her premises.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry. And harp seals are the prime source of that fur. (The other two neighbors that banned them are Kazakhstan and Belarus). Excerpted from the Globe and Mail.

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Animal Person

APRIL 22, 2009

How ridiculous is it that " On the Psychological Continuum ," to say nothing of an article against rabbit fur, is on the same page as Gabriella's Fur Den? The ads I see today have nothing to do with animal cruelty--the opposite is true. I may have just gotten myself fired from Animal Rights Zone.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2008

Animal rights activists released about 600 mink from a fur farm.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

But I saw on television that certain animal-rights activists demonstrated against the wearing of furs. The message is that wearing fur is wrong. Apparently, the primary consumers of furs these days are young, career-oriented women. I’m not sure I agree with their tactics, however.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2011

The fur is flying over plans by the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals to run a porn site in the group’s fight against animal abuse. Peta.xxx will have sexually explicit content and address animal rights issues. They are worried about animals but they don’t care about the value of women,” Landolt said.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).

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Critter News

MAY 22, 2009

The article also shows results on non-animal issues as well. Tags: ethics animal rights us. Disappointing results from Gallup's annual "moral acceptability" measure. Not surprisingly, Republicans tend to take more conservative stances than Democrats.

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