Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. Did you know this?

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

The Baghdad Zoo rakes in some more animals. I am no fan of zoos, especially in an unstable country like Iraq. In the middle of the war, animals are the least of anyone's concern," said Lisa Wathne, spokeswoman for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. So, I actually agree with PETA in this case. "In

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Puerto Rico Monkeys Ethical Treatment Zoos 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2009

What is uniquely important to Kant about moral conduct, however, is not its difficulty, orderliness, or purposelessness; it is rather the fact that moral conduct is the practical exercise of the noble capacity to be rational and self-governing, a capacity which sets us apart from the lower animals and gives us dignity. not from duty ).

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

It sent more than 300,000 troops to help us in Vietnam, was a quick and generous supporter of Desert Storm in 1991, and for several years had the third-largest deployment of troops in Iraq, following our invasion of that country five years ago. Without our strong alliance with South Korea, our influence in Asia would be vastly diminished.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

Example: A reference to "still undemocratic Iraq" makes the assertion that eventually Iraq will be democratic. Using the human-appropriate relative pronoun "who" to refer to an animal is a planted assertion that animals should be considered in the same way that humans are considered.

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