Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Let me know if you hear the show!

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And they were, before they stopped their train of thought prior to it reaching its most important station. 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." Potent if symbolic? Not eating them.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Ian says, regarding " Veterinarians Train Sealers to Kill Humanely, " that "veterinarians very often do not care about animals but rather are more like auto mechanics who are providing a service for humans (that service may be to save an animal or kill an animal, etc)." " which includes a poll. That was a lot, I know.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2008

First of all, I want to tell you how much I enjoy Animal Ethics. It’s a job-matching site for all jobs related to animals, like training, grooming, veterinary medicine, caretaking, zoo positions, and much, much more. If the majority of your blog readers are animal lovers like me, then I know they’d love my site.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

[T]here is another class of cases where the state is accorded the right to interfere with the individual when he is not interfering with any other person, namely, where cruelty to animals is involved. who cannot protect their interests. who cannot protect their interests.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2008

For the record, I am opposed to violence in behalf of animals. I can't think of anything that does more harm to the cause of animal liberation. In the long run, the best thing we can do for animals is engage in rational persuasion. Philosophers are trained to do this. You might wonder how this could work.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)" How long should one animal be used in the lab before it is euthanized?"

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Whoever thought President Bush was a pro-animal environmentalist?

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Animal Person

MAY 3, 2009

I wasn't there and my husband isn't great in a crisis--he stands, mouth agape, completely frozen, and watches whatever train wreck is occurring rather than jumping in to try to help. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters. And so we ended up with this--. And after a $250 vet trip it became this--.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Philosophers are trained to criticize arguments and derive satisfaction from doing so. Isn’t it obvious that Morse is trying to explain something, namely, why decent, sensitive people participate in an institution that inflicts a great deal of suffering on animals? Furthermore, the argument cuts too deep.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Who exactly is not supposed to eat animals or products of animals? This problem is especially acute with respect to carnivorous animals. What animals is it morally wrong to eat? If animals could be created by genetic engineering, could they be created so that there were no moral objections to eating them?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 25, 2007

To the Editor: “ For ‘Animal Precinct,’ Reality Subject to Dispute ” (news article, July 23) missed the entire point of comprehensive animal welfare: that effective animal welfare requires both response and prevention. The real story here is our tireless commitment to fighting animal cruelty. New York, July 23, 2007

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

As an organization comprising dog trainers, behaviorists and other animal professionals, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers is aware that any dog can bite, any dog can maim and any dog can kill. A dangerous or vicious dog is a product of a combination of individual genetics, upbringing, socialization and lack of proper training.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 14, 2011

She has very few pieces of clothing (and most are secondhand) and many of her books and toys are secondhand (and we had to weed through them for animal use). Plus, only the trained eye would be able to determine that she likes me. She spends most of her time outside, naked (it's still nearly 90 degrees here), exploring the world.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild? They're wild animals!

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2008

Those sailors and marines will succeed because of the intense training they have undergone—training that included use of active sonar to find enemy submarines. During training with active sonar, we protect marine mammals by employing rigorous protective measures. The United States Fifth Fleet will prevent that from happening.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 19, 2008

That set in motion a great train of events. The whales were frozen in by ice floes on their southward migration from the arctic. Somebody spotted them surfacing in a waterhole and contacted authorities. Volunteers made their way to the scene, machinery was moved in, and rescue efforts commenced.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

To train them to fight one another, and then to kill the losers of these fights, is barbaric beyond words. Is there anything creepier than dog fighting? How could someone support, much less organize, such a vile practice? Dogs evolved with humans. They are our trusted friends and companions.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. One typical, blue-sky, L.A.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Of course, you're supposed to hop onto the following train of thought: These are good people. Families, so the commercials go, don't engage in untoward aspects of animal husbandry that might hurt the cows. Families are just as capable of horrendous policies toward animals as anyone else. There are children.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. What is forbidden meat?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 9, 2009

Because when you compare two species, or rather a nonhuman animal species to the human animal, the humans almost always come out on top. The way greyhounds, for instance, have been bred and trained takes advantage of their natural talent and instinct, but you could say the same thing about the border collie (number one on the list).

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Moreover, there is always a problem of what to do with the animal when they go on holiday. which rears the animals, house-trains them, supplies them to any willing purchaser, takes them back, exterminates them and supplies replacements, on demand. Suppose, indeed, that a company grows up, 'Disposapup Ltd.',

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