Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Sounds interesting.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

And not all organizations that advocate for animals claim to have a "genuine environmentalist ethic," and the ones that do must subscribe to his ethic or they're not genuine? than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

He differentiates those animals from what he calls "the cute animals" which is important and one of the few passages that I appreciated in this series. The fact that we care about--and fight for--animals based on how cute we have deemed them to be is disgraceful. Why should we euthanize Clayton and start over?

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