Critter News

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. s vice president for research. Certainly a case to follow.

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Critter News

JUNE 15, 2009

ALF activists spray painted a bomb threat at Wageningen University in the Netherlands because they do animal research. For more than a year this university has been warned about their meaningless experiments on various animals and especially pigs (obesity research). Never heard of that approach.

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Netherlands Pigs Animal Research Research 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. They would say they love animals.

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

Felony animal cruelty is the cruel killing of an animal, and he is also being charges with 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body.) The four counts of burglary he is being charged with carry a heftier sentence than the animal killing. And people who want to kill those they cannot control scare me.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 22, 2011

If you’re a pet owner, you know from experience how tricky it can be finding places to live (other than buying a house) where you’re allowed to own pets. Or you never really wanted to because of the time and energy required, but you still love animals. Perhaps you don’t own a pet, but always wanted to.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

15): We are glad to see an article describing the intensive confinement of egg-laying chickens, but we disagree when it says that animal advocates and consumers are “driving big changes” in the treatment of chickens. At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Masson traces the history of our relationship with dogs, and sprinkles in stories from various cultures that love as well as despise them, and concludes that dogs are more significant to humans than any other animal (39). This includes horses, cats and cows. And he details why. There's never a claw in sight and she's very patient).

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Dogs Pit Bulls Greyhounds Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Later, there were magic summers on the island with their children, friends, and friends’ children (and the various animals Wingate was always taking in), and the terrible accident that resulted in Anita’s early death. These are magical experiences. This very personal story might seem out of place in a bird book.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I immensely enjoyed "EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED" (even on the big screen) and eagerly anticipated "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Finally, if you know someone who gravitates toward the philosophical issues around our use of animals, this is a good book. Ever, in fact. Not great, but good. Imagine being served a plate of sushi.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

There was also evidence of the damage that feral pigs can do all along the trail and along the water’s edge and we soon came across a small group of them. No doubt the National Parks are aware of the situation, but it is also hard to deal with feral animals in remote areas. Feral pigs. Turtle shell. We were undeterred!

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Animal Ethics

JULY 17, 2008

For a non-self-conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Peter Singer , "Killing Humans and Killing Animals," Inquiry 22 [summer 1979]: 145-56, at 152 [endnote omitted]) Note from KBJ: Singer is making a distinction within the class of sentient beings.

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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: Humans and pigs are not just sentient, which already distinguishes them from microorganisms; they are, in Tom Regan’s terminology, “subjects of a life.” If not, why not?

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