Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species.

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

Many people have said to me that they believe if they started thinking about what they are responsible for, or what we do as a species to other species--and particularly if they have to see too much--they'd break down and don't think they'd ever recover. Tags: Ethics Language. Is evil something you do but not who you are?

Vivisection 100

Vivisection Vegan Ethics Cruelty 100

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." They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? What do you think?

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? One then proceeds, however, as one will, to systematize and minimize one's ethical axioms by reducing some causally to others.

2000 40

2000 Morals Vivisection Science 40