Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farm animals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for nearly 1,000 rescued farm animals.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983]) There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. (

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. Justice's hammer falls again and again until it ends when the price is a helpless animals life, --Feminists for Animal Liberation. In the short term at least, it's not working. This law changes NOTHING.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 361 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983]) Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

It provides no basis for the rights of animals and instead contains within itself the grounds for perpetuating the very speciesist practices it was supposed to overthrow. To secure the philosophical foundation for animal rights requires abandoning utilitarianism. (

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2012

With the argument of the present chapter serving as the backdrop, the conclusion we reach is that to deny consciousness or a mental life to mammalian animals is an expression of human chauvinism. (

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! consider pointing out to a few of the biggest and most influential (food-wise) LGUs -- Iowa State, Cornell, University of California-Davis -- the harm they're doing globally by continuing to promote meat despite the known dangers to animals, people, and the environment.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The mere size of the relative population of the species to which a given animal belongs makes no moral difference to the grounds for attributing rights to that individual animal or to the basis for determining when that animal's rights may be justifiably overridden or protected. (

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 174-5 [italics in original; ellipsis added; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) Moral agents are not nonrational, do not have "only a relative value," and are not things.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Quite the contrary, just as would be true in the case of my son, what we should say is that part of the harm done to these animals by factory farming is that they do not know this. (

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But what we have accomplished up to this time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 399-400 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2011

The majority of the unaccounted-for animals were dogs, Barnette said.” Barnette announced that her LA Animal Services staff has a “few bad apples”—not exactly the public description you expect from a City manager. “They were the young ones, the cute ones,” Barnette said. At a recent Encino Neighborhood Council meeting Ms.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 197-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? Turns out, from what I could find, not particularly ceremonious. Will it work?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. She’s had an enduring love for animals and nature, but it wasn’t until she volunteered at a wildlife hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area that her passion for photography merged with her environmental advocacy. I surprised her and she dropped the bird before vaporizing again.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 267-8 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983]) If there are moral rights, they do not "come to be" in the way legal rights do. (

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 8, 2008

To the Editor: The recent terrorist attacks on scientists (“ Firebombings at Homes of 2 California Researchers ,” news article, Aug. 4) are abhorrent acts condemned by the vast majority of animal advocates and the organizations who represent them, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society.

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