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First-Ever Conference to End Factory Farming

Critter News

It will be in Arlington, VA at the end of October. This sounds wonderful. Someday, if it becomes an annual event, I hope I can go.

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27,000 Animals Rescued in Texas

Critter News

An Arlington, Texas, municipal judge ruled that the animals suffered from neglect and cruel conditions, and an appeal by the company's owners to a higher court was denied last weekend. This rescue is the result of a PETA undercover investigation. See, husband, this is why I like PETA!) From the Detroit Free Press.

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Open Season on Bald Eagles

10,000 Birds

Fairfax Drive MS 2042-PPM Arlington, VA 22203 As always, thank you for caring and thank you for acting. Send your polite, well-reasoned letter to: Attn: FWS-R9-MB-2011-0014 Division of Policy Directives Management U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services 4401 N.

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Mylan

Animal Ethics

Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. Mylan worked in epistemology. I worked in ethics.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Mittermeier President, Conservation International Arlington, Va., Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on species, which are the basis of ecosystems that give us fresh air, water and countless other natural resources necessary for human well-being worldwide. Once the world’s threatened species are gone, no amount of money can bring them back.

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Introducing Jonathan Hubbell

Animal Ethics

Jonathan is a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington , where I have been a professor since the fall of 1989. This blog has a new member: my former (and perhaps future) student Jonathan Hubbell. Like many people (including me), he fell in love with the discipline almost as soon as he discovered it.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

If I visit Arlington Cemetery, do I give my tacit consent to the various wars that produced the graves? But is it true that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent to the cruel treatment of animals? It is certainly not clear what one gives one’s tacit consent to in following a practice. Certainly not.