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Star-Powered Auction for Animals!

4 The Love Of Animals

“My wife and I are delighted to support Precious Paws and its ongoing quest to save animals and provide good, loving homes for them,” said Mark Hamill. The organization is committed to its cause, and this fundraiser is critical in helping the group meet its mission.”. Star-Powered Auction for Animals! About Precious Paws.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

10,000 Birds

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. Or Bachman’s Warbler.

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Tom Regan on Human Chauvinism

Animal Ethics

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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Tom Regan on Rights

Animal Ethics

a despot) or any group (e.g., 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. ( a legislative assembly).

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