Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The raid followed an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. 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. See, husband, this is why I like PETA!)

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I worked in 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. I didn't like Mylan at the time, and I'm sure he didn't like me. Mylan worked in epistemology.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Jonathan is a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington , where I have been a professor since the fall of 1989. He received the highest score in both my fall 2005 Social and Political Philosophy course and my spring 2006 Ethics course. This blog has a new member: my former (and perhaps future) student Jonathan Hubbell.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2008

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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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

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.

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