Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. Baur believes that slaughterhouse cruelty can be reduced by simple operational changes, such as slowing down the slaughter lines. I certainly didn't.

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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. Chance is so close!

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

if they are "farmed" or slaughtered in a certain way). 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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film. And in order for that to happen, it's got to have funding.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish. Part of the reason my interest in blogging daily has waned is because of the infighting and mean-spiritedness that can be read. daily, in the blogosphere.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

David Jentsch says to his colleagues "your silence will no longer protect you" and his community of vivisectionists has decided to have a pro-torture and slaughter (i.e., says a commenter on the journalist's blog). research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community).

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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

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Their goal is to make a profit from the breeding and slaughter of animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. There are children. I don't care about scale.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It is a very interesting read, and as I stated in the post I wrote on my blog , part of the team that wrote the plan is the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, one of the states proposing a Sandhill Crane slaughter. It has not. As always, thank you for caring, and for writing.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And I don't think that converting one person at a time to veganism via my spectacular baking or my blogging is going to make up for the people of China and India rapidly increasing their consumption of animals. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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