Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Related articles by Zemanta Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies (scienceblog.com). The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com).

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2009

Ruppy and four other beagles are the first dogs to glow, though the experiment has taken place in other animals. per cent of embryos came to term) and has moral issues attached as well. To read more about Ruppy and how the project came to pass, as well as see photos of the puppy glowing, visit this article.

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Animal Person

JUNE 1, 2009

But " Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism " is a great look back at how we humans have managed to always find a way to consider ourselves unique, despite what the reality of the nonhuman world tells us. Having misled us for so long about animals, science is initiating a revolution in our understanding.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? Have op-ed article writers Peter Singer and Karen Dawn not seen the beautiful natural habitat at the L.A. The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

Here's an article that explains the hard times the Zoo has faced since then. Animal experts descended for investigations of their own, and employee morale sank to an all- time low. Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. It's a long list.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." And the article is worth reading just for that. What do you think?

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." In other words, it's a scam.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The Indiana Daily Student wrote an article today encouraging people to kill and eat man's best friend! It's morally permissible to eat cows. It's morally permissible to eat cows. It's not morally permissible to eat dogs. There are no morally relevant differences between cows and dogs.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed. BRANIGAN President, Make Peace With Animals New Hope, Pa., He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse? No pearly phrases can make that any better.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic. Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

4): Your article about E. Then I saw the photo of Stephanie Smith and read the accompanying article. 4, 2009 To the Editor: Your otherwise impressive article did not mention irradiation, the only reliable method of eliminating E. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. Victoria Bridgehampton, N.Y.,

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. .&# I am inclined to believe so.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

The NY Times article Keith linked to earlier today (see here ) points out that fur sales are up 9% over last year and from this statistic goes on to infer that "fur is back in style." Each semester when I teach Contemporary Moral Issues, on the first day of class I begin with a survey. But is it really? Not according to my students.

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Critter News

MAY 22, 2009

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

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