Animal Person

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This morning I posted " On California's Animal Abuse Registry Proposal " over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression and welcome any discussion about it. What a fitting addition to discussions about speciesism! The outcome: "worship of human beings."

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Animal Abuse Speciesism Animal Ethics 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Field & Stream executive editor David Petzal defines fair chase as 'stalking an animal on its own terms.'

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40