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Halal Slaughter Causing a Furor In Quebec
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2012
Quebec is not known for its animal welfare concerns or laws. I think the issue stems from this being an Islamic practice and the fear of contaminated meat, not concern for the animals. It wants to know how many companies are involved in producing halal meat and the number of animals are being slaughtered annually under Islamic ritual.
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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
Too little, too late – yes; but still a step in the right direction. You guessed it right – the hunting lobby used their influence for political pressures. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. Left: David Lindo, a.k.a. The Urban Birder is a broadcaster, writer, naturalist, photographer, public speaker and a tour leader.
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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?
Critter News
MARCH 7, 2012
Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle. A new report in the Staug News of St. Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area.
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Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Australian Dairy Farmers says calves can be left unfed for 30 hours before slaughter but the RSPCA says the practice is "cruel". Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.
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Unintended Consequences for US Ban on Horse Slaughter
Critter News
APRIL 25, 2010
Unfortunately, a record number of horses are now going to Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses, where there is no USDA control over animal welfare conditions. I don't support the slaughter of any animal, but if an animal will die anyway, don't we want the best possible conditions? I just don't know. He's such a douchebag.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2008
I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. It is also used to prevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins.
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100 On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
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." The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. All you need to know is one word: slaughter.
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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. They would be made up of people who are sick and tired of government-protected species being slaughtered by domestic cats.
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On Thanking Slaughtered Sheep for Book Awards
Animal Person
APRIL 29, 2009
Well, she apparently did such a great job convincing the folks at the Minnesota Book Awards that you can claim to love animals and then send them to slaughter, that not only was she a finalist for their award, but she won it. In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank.
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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Why do they do this?
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272 Activists in Canada Found Not Guilty of Getting to Close to Seal Slaughter
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2008
A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. That's good news.
Tom Regan (1938-2017), R.I.P.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. CAF’s grants help make possible the next generation of animal rights scholarship and artistry.
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On "Animal Activism"
Animal Person
MAY 23, 2009
I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. First, note that now PeTA is an "animal advocacy group."
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On The Respectful Emperor
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. Feathers: animal. I confirmed my weird personal right to consume chicken." People are talking.
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On Not Eating Animals
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. Not Eating Animals. And when you have people who slaughter animals for a living on your side, in my mind your pro-animal message loses credibility.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
He didn’t maim or touch the animals, period,” said his lawyer, Myles Breiner, during his not guilty plea. In March, Gutierrez changed his story and agreed to “cooperate with prosecutors,” so his 15 counts of animal cruelty were dropped to one. . “He was there when this happened but he did not injure any birds.
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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.
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100 On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
Bea directed me to an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Parker , the "chair man " (my emphasis) of the Animal Agriculture Alliance at CattleNetwork, which apparently is "The Source for Cattle News." If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.
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Critter News
AUGUST 26, 2009
Animal rights activists from a group called The Militant Forces Against Huntingdon Life Sciences went to a cemetery and dug up an urn belonging to the family of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. Until he can show some respect for the animals Novartis sends to slaughter then we see no reason to respect his dead.
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On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. Perhaps the best feature of the film is the various voices telling a similar story.
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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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Animal Person
AUGUST 12, 2010
The marketing of an operation of breeding and slaughtering sentient nonhumans as a family farm (here, Bell straddles the line) is supposed to trigger some kind of compassion for the humans. It's the one that matters most to beings who simply want to live their lives without betrayal, disrespect, enslavement and slaughter.
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On Surreal Lobster Advocacy
Animal Person
MAY 9, 2009
Yesterday I received an e-mail alert from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) regarding " a coin operated game that uses live lobsters at the Royal Palm Ale House in Royal Palm Beach. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane." What do you think of this campaign?
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Dog Death Squads in China
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. Can you imagine being forced to kill your own dog to save it from a more brutal slaughter? Thank you, Fred.
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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone.
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Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act Passed House Judiciary
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Especially animal business. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Lovely quote.
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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"
Animal Person
JUNE 6, 2009
You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. There's a donate button on the homepage of AnimalEquality right at the bottom of the "Pig Farms" panel. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism.
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Then there are the myriad entry points to thinking about how we use animals and the impact that has on the animals, the planet, our bodies and our consciences. Who needs to eat animals when you can have delicious, low fat, high fiber, nutritious meals that are light on carbon footprint and don't involve killing anybody?
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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal
Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. It's just not right. No argument here.
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone.
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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer
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. To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).
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On Food for the Soul
Animal Person
AUGUST 23, 2009
His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation.
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PETA Goes After Canada's Seal Hunt
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2009
I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. I hate the seal slaughter. On environmental and animal issues, not so much. Whether it's dumping raw sewage out of Victoria BC into Puget Sound, to their lenient treatment in animal abuse cases, I just don't agree with some of the policies they have.
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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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Animal Person
AUGUST 18, 2011
I was going to change Animal Person to Vegan Atheist 40+ Parenting and come back to blogging. Doesn't have a ring to it at all, but a young man at Whole Foods yesterday called himself an "animal person" while ordering a roast beef wrap and I thought: Note to self-must change blog name if going to resume blogging.
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On Different Results of Direct Action
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.
It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb
Animal Ethics
JULY 19, 2007
Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. that slaughters horses for human consumption. you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S.
On the Eating of Seafood
Animal Person
JUNE 10, 2009
It might be a gift because those pescetarian holdouts we all know who are convinced that for some strange reason eating animals from the sea is not as bad as eating those who live on land, might be convinced that their decision is a bit misguided. You don't need a widget to do the right thing. I guess war is defined by death count.
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The Best in Vegan Education
Animal Person
JUNE 29, 2009
Other than being a vegan, the most important actions you can take to help animals who are used for food are: Give generously to organizations that help those sentient nonhumans directly, such as Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary , Maple Farm Sanctuary , Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary and Eastern Shore Sanctuary.
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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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A Win-Lose Proposition for Farmers and Consumers
Animal Person
DECEMBER 5, 2009
People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. First let's deconstruct: The recession has caused a decrease in demand for animal products. Along with the rest of the country. Translation?
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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!
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Animal Person
JULY 6, 2009
You can't pull the god card to claim superiority over the rest of us so you demonize the consumption of animal products. You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. It simply cannot be justified.
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