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27,000 Animals Rescued in Texas

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It was an exotic animal importing firm (why the eff do those even exist?) that was allegedly mistreating its animals. A lot of these animals are reptiles, spiders and amphibians, which explains the large number. The raid followed an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. That's HUGE.

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First-Ever Conference to End Factory Farming

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It will be in Arlington, VA at the end of October. This sounds wonderful. Someday, if it becomes an annual event, I hope I can go.

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Mylan

Animal Ethics

Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. I worked in ethics. I consider Mylan's essay " The Immorality of Eating Meat " the best thing I've read on the topic.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

15), is precisely on the mark regarding the urgency and importance of today’s plant and animal extinction crisis. An estimated $13 billion a year would be enough to maintain and expand protected areas in the tropics, where the vast majority of plant and animals species are found.

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Introducing Jonathan Hubbell

Animal Ethics

Jonathan is a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington , where I have been a professor since the fall of 1989. This blog has a new member: my former (and perhaps future) student Jonathan Hubbell. Like many people (including me), he fell in love with the discipline almost as soon as he discovered it.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.