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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights factory farms family farms. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm.

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Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

And without their well-run breeding programs, many exotic species really could soon disappear from Earth for good. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

Horse-drawn carriages and breeding and racing horses and using them to play polo or to schlep kids around is an insult to horses. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Horses have done enough for us, and most of it against their will. Let's leave them alone.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

I don't disagree with Herbert, but what if I wrote: Most people don't want to hear about the capacity of nonhumans to experience pain, pleasure, boredom or frustration, and President Obama would rather walk through fire than do anything other than acquire a pure breed puppy or pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving (though that one remains to be seen).

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

This is an interesting moment in the story: Paragallo said Thursday that he had given the horses away to a Florida-based breeder, whom he did not identify, in December with the agreement that he could breed the mares back to one of his stallions based in New York or Florida. Tags: Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Of course, there's the pure breed discussion as well as the breeding of dogs, in general, discussion (most frequent after the racing discussion for me). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. All of this, just from walking through the neighborhood 4-5 times/day. So there you have it: greyhounds are seeds, too.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I then promptly completely caved in and bought Wellness ' new large breed, definitely nonvegan dry food (and I always soak kibble) that has 25% protein (Natural Balance Vegetarian has 18%, and all from non-animal sources) and I've started cutting some in just in case (I'll stop at 50%). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

It moves society closer to the view that all forms of speciesist exploitation--from dog breeding to commercial fishing--are morally wrong (151). Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism. We must rethink what we were taught in school, on the playground and at home.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.

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Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

(As you are likely aware, very few people can actually get through the film in one sitting, plus the first third, about "pets," sends the troublesome message that puppy mills are the problem, rather than breeding in general.) Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

However young and healthy, captives judged inappropriate for exhibition or breeding are considered 'excess' and usually are 'unloaded' or killed. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75). Chance is so close! Please consider a gift.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. These Blasts From The Past Queens Big Day: An Ethical Quandary and More Birds!

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

It wasn't long before The Humane Emperor came on the scene, and is still around, telling folks that with a little mental acrobatics you can include forcible breeding, captivity, separation of family, killing of day-old chicks, and of course, untimely death in the definition of "humane." That's respect. Photo from Flickr user gunp0wder.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. This one gives us a look inside the mind of the vivisectionist, Daniel Engber.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Actually, I'd like to recreate the environment that once existed, where we all learned from each other and supported each other and were simply trying to all figure out how to get the average person--particularly as represented by the mainstream media--to wake up from the slumber of injustice our culture breeds.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

Suppose there was a breed of sheep that became very ill when the sheep’s fleece was removed; they did not function normally. KBJ: This is true of every normative ethical theory, from natural law to divine command to utilitarianism to egoism to contractarianism to Kantian deontology. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: Ditto.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2009

Would they have the right to treat you as you treat animals you breed, keep, and kill for food? Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals.

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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. If someone owns me, forcibly breeds me, takes my kids and ends my life, it's a living hell for me.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

There are conservation efforts to save these species by individual aquarists, who are keeping and breeding them in hopes that they can someday be reintroduced into the lake. For me, part if this goes to the question of whether or not we should breed or otherwise try to restore endangered species, in general.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

One good acquaintance I could probably call a friend is an ethics professor who flies back and forth from Texas to China frequently argued in a group pertaining to bestiality. There is no wrong in using a breeding rack, it does not damage an animal. Tags: Ethics. He was the only one against it for religious reasons.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 9, 2009

The upshot is that the "smartest" dogs are the most recently-developed breeds as we bred them to be responsive to us, unlike the older breeds, such as greyhounds and other hounds whose skills are said to be the result of "instinctive intelligence." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language.

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