Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. But that's me.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights For Animals Rights HSUS 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

Stephanie's post about " The Compassionate Hypocrite " on Saturday reminded me of what Catherine Friend and other " compassionate carnivores " are doing in addition to twisting the definition of compassionate beyond recognition. There's no "compassion" in the process. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. Well, no, definitely not. Take homing pigeons.

Research 201

Research Humane Compassion New York 201