Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

I haven't had time to blog--or even to work out daily like I used to--but that doesn't mean I don't read all my e-mails and go to every link everyone sends me. Why is it always open season on children as long as you're teaching them about mainstream beliefs, regardless of how ethically contradictory they may be? I am an abolitionist.

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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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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. There is only one alternative to testing drugs on animals: testing them on humans. That's why I truly wish someone would explain to me to me why humans are so unique and of such higher value than anything else.

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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. Where do people get that idea?

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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. My deconstructions of the language of our relationship with sentient nonhumans in this blog--and the way I approach discussing that relationship--is similar to Dunayer's. I could go on and on.

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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." We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Being vegan because you want to live as nonviolently as possible and you don't want to contribute to violence and you don't want to respond to violence with violence is admirable to some, though refusing to support the defense of sentient nonhumans when you probably would if they were humans bothers me. Not that I'm giving you a deadline.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

With more than 2 million members across the globe, PETA is the largest animal advocacy group and comparable in size to the human rights organization, Amnesty International. So there are more vegans and fewer animals used by humans, right? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. And not necessarily for animals.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. In this game, the object is to pluck live lobsters out of the water with a joystick-controlled crane."

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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. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank. But it was a gratitude that came from acknowledging I was eating the flesh of an animal, and in order for me to do that, Melissa and I had worked very hard to be sustainable and humane farmers" (252).

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Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. Simple living as a political act consists solely of harm reduction, ignoring the fact that humans can help the Earth as well as harm it. [ Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. What are your thoughts?

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

The film addresses the humane myth straight on, with unprecedented transparency in the discussions of animal farming, by simply letting its characters tell their personal stories. You might not be in a position to write a pamphlet or book or blog (or even interested), and even if you are you are there's no guarantee of your reach or success.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni, Ph.D.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

Oh, the humanity! But until then, unfortunately, the vegans that I am in contact with through my blog and through twitter and other venues online and not, will be dining elsewhere. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. Balderdash, I tell you! M: Oh, but you don't have to worry at PF Chang's!

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2010

I somehow became the non-vet, go-to person regarding dogs and diabetes, I suppose due to my frequent blogging about Violet Rays (left), my greyhound who has been through diabetes, blindness (then cataract replacement), glaucoma and retina detachment. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics canine diabetes humulin vetsulin.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. In his post, Revkin cites Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University. metric tons per year?

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 17, 2008

Should we legalize dog meat for human consumption? For a discussion of the issue, see William Saletan’s recent post at the Human Nature Blog. Saletan discusses some reader reactions to his first post on legalizing dog meat here. What's next? Soylent green? What do you think? Should we be eating dog meat?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Mark Spahn sent a link to this blog. Like humans, they have a right to liberty. At the risk of being a killjoy, let me say that there should ( morally ) be no zoos. Wild animals belong in the wild. They do not exist for our amusement, entertainment, or education.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

First of all, I would like to thank Keith for inviting me to be a part of this blog. Currently, I am very interested in social and political philosophy and ethical issues. I felt a strong sense of connection to the ideas of Peter Singer while taking Ethics from Keith. Hi there, I'm Jonathan. So, I took the plunge.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

Andrew Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for the New York Times. Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and the web of life. Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits. In Dot Earth, reporter Andrew C.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 3, 2007

I love your blog. I wrote the following for a blog on the Animals and Religion Forum on the Best Friends Animal Network website. When Jesus died on the cross, He didn't just save us humans—He died for the animals, too. The animals took the place of humans. Dear Keith, Hi. Animal sacrifice was no longer necessary.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2007

Phillip Barron submitted this blog post for your consideration. As I explained to him in e-mail, murderers are guilty of the most heinous offense, namely, taking innocent human life, whereas animals are not guilty of anything. That difference makes all the difference.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2007

you have a very interesting blog! Thanks so much—Amanda (one of the Dotty Humans) Hello Keith, Mylan, and Jonathan We stumbled across your very worthy site and read some recent posts. We’re going to go and have an in-depth look this morning, in the meantime, please take a look at our website.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Clearly in our second hypothetical situation, it would be said, it would not be right to kill a human being for food.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. I was mortified.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

I've been engaging in some of the steps for about a year, beginning with reading the books and blogs of people I have come to deeply respect and for the most part agree with. The books and blogs mentioned in the post aren't for everyone in style or substance, and for me style can be an enormous hurdle. I also disagree with them.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. One of the most important things about Deb's blog, Invisible Voices , is that many of the fortunate animals who end up at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary , where she volunteers, came from family farms.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

i) Do attend socially conscious circuses like Cirque de Soleil that exclusively feature human performers. (j) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals. A list of Humane Charities is available here. Wishing you a Happy Healthy Humane New Year! Join me in resolving to do right by animals in 2008.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

i) Do attend socially conscious circuses like Cirque de Soleil that exclusively feature human performers. (j) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals. A list of Humane Charities is available here. Wishing you a Happy Humane New Year! (h) Don’t attend circuses that contain nonhuman animal acts. (i)

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. 105-6) Dr. Spock is not alone in his endorsement of breast-feeding human infants. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I do not believe that our war can be won by vegan education alone and that some day, the oppressors of humans, nonhuman animals and the planet are going to see the error of their ways and transition to a nonviolent, non-exploiting way of life. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2006

On the blog Animal Ethics (which I visited because of your reference to it) is the sentence "Let us temporarily assume for the sake of argument that it would be permissible to eat the flesh of an animal who was raised humanely and killed entirely painlessly." Did you notice that "who" the writer slipped in there?

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