Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

The protest happened on Wednesday. Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. I'm late on this one. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) will be staging protests at this fur store in Everett, WA. Tags: seattle fur. The company is Terry L. Fieck Furs. Here is their idea of a fur coat. Nice and GREEN! Literally and sarcastically.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.) Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" From Oregonlive.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.), sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

Here's a short analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which makes me wonder if what we do on this blog could be construed as falling under it. From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2010

A British animal rights activist is starting a prison sentence after being found guilty of (I think) conspiracy to commit arson. He planted petrol bombs at Oxford University to protest plans to build an animal research laboratory. Tags: UK activism animal rights animal laboratories.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps came out in 2007. Thoroughly researched and annotated, The Longest Struggle reflects its author's two decades as an animal rights activist and his access to movement leaders who have shared with him their personal stories of campaigns that made animal rights history.

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Critter News

JANUARY 23, 2009

And here's a little snippet for Gretchen, the animal hater at work, who wears everything having to do with dolphins, but believes we pay too much attention to animals. Tags: oceans captivity dolphin Gretchen the animal hater. She believes dolphins have "fun" doing shows. Well, that's not true, b&*@.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Animal Person

MARCH 10, 2010

I credit Will Potter as the catalyst for shifting my focus away from critiques of other activists and activist groups (particularly his post, " While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other " back in 2008). Tags: Activism Film Gray Matters. But that's me.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She's referring to the pie thrown in the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a PETA member protesting the Canadian seal hunt. I'm wondering whether the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in the US is making the rounds of Canadian politicians. Tags: canada animal enterprise terrorism act seals PETA.

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Critter News

MAY 24, 2009

Attorney's for 4 people accused under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act filed a motion to have the charges dismissed. From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. The law must be struck down.”

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MAY 25, 2010

These people are protesters, not terrorists. Lesley Hill Peters, suggested that the protesters could also face terrorism-related charges. Tags: louisiana animal enterprise terrorism act Stupid British Petroleum 2010 oil spill. This is just a tool to silence criticism of large corporations.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop. PETA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are holding a joint news conference this week, and I would like to offer you an exclusive advance scoop on it. Tags: IFAW PETA.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

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. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. Did you know this?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Tags: podcast. I apologize for the audio quality of this episode.my sound engineer was on the Xbox! Here are the week's stories.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

According to a communique received by Bite Back , they did this in protest of Max Mara's use of furs. It was not a whim or an attempt to get attention, as the sensationalist press will say; instead this is a response to the domination, objectification and commodification of millions of animals (mink, chinchilla, fox, raccoons, etc.)

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But within the last year, an animal cruelty investigation almost shut one down because spikes were being used to antagonize the bull. This was a clear violation of animal law. Next time, though, I might want to hook up with an animal rights group to protest. Tags: portuguese-americans california bullfighting.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. Yes, I sent the protest. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Here's my question: What is "a humane future?"

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?" Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Perhaps all sandwich shops should be housed in abattoirs. PS-Note the brackets provided by the journalist.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans. That's one result.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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JANUARY 31, 2010

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Make a donation to help IFAW end dog culls in China and to protect animals around the world from similar cruelty. In addition to working to stop this cull, IFAW is helping draft China’s first national animal welfare legislation that will prohibit culls like this. Please send your message of protest today. Thank you, Fred.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 6, 2009

CONCLUSION There is no doubt that moral vegetarianism will continue to be a position that attracts people concerned with the plight of animals and with humanitarian goals. As I have suggested above, vegetarianism may have a protest or symbolic function. One final point. Then becoming a vegetarian would be a supererogatory act.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. The design of Animal Person is probably as uninviting as it could possibly be. Big fail here for Animal Person.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. Back then I was a young child and never thought any different about greyhounds or indeed any other animal. He would not return for many hours. Thinking back still touch's me to the point where I feel so guilty-but I knew no different.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. Having said that though, I see that these types of protests have had an effect in the San Diego area. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Mulesing, in which woolgrowers surgically remove parts of merino lambs' rears to prevent potentially fatal flystrike, has sparked demonstrations and litigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Tags: australia sheep mulesing.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly.

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