Critter News

OCTOBER 29, 2008

It's from September 30, from the Humane Society. As the quarterly campaign finance period closed today, the YES! on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factory farms. Chief economist? That's so cool!

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

From the campaign website : (Nov. California voters have taken a stand for decency and compassion and said that the systemic mistreatment of animals on factory farms cannot continue," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, the primary back of the YES! on Prop 2 campaign.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Let me know if you hear the show!

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This new campaign, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Maddie’s Fund, and the Ad Council, hopes to reverse this trend and find homes for these homeless, lovable pets. The campaign has one unified goal, to increase pet adoption. Tags: adoptable events animal adoption animal rescue animal shelter psa.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it. Here are some of the my favorite quotes: In reality, species don't evolve toward greater humanness but toward greater adaptiveness in their ecological niche (105).

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

Soltero's and WALO's interest in RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry, and I greatly look forward to Monday's interview! And it's a mediated human world, with billions of people each receiving thousands of messages per day, nearly 100 percent of them promoting human supremacy.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? If we don't succeed, well, then it's going to affect all of humanity.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. Tags: animal cruelty books. Sounds interesting.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree. Interestingly, the campaigns of happy meaters are acknowledged for perhaps being somewhat of a scam with the next sentence.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 30, 2009

which helps foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions, successfully completed the 2009 Let Freedom Bark Ride fundraising initiative and exceeded the fundraising goal of $20,000 in an effort to sponsor the life of a service dog for an individual in need.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2010

FSD) for their second annual philanthropic campaign. FSD’s custom trained service dogs assist their partners in day-to-day activities providing their human companions with a greater degree of independence. Tags: news people helping animals. The Dublin Dog Foundation (DDF) has partnered with Freedom Service Dogs, Inc.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

My self-appointed job in this blog is to think critically about how our human lives intersect with those of sentient nonhumans, in action and thought. What do you think of this campaign? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

In addition to heaps of information at www.RPAforAll.org about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry, there is now a current list of all 50 governors with address and their state's LGU. RPA launched its 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry in 2003.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

I also wanted you to know about the Who’s Your Good Dog Campaign. Post a picture on Susan Wilson’s Facebook page and explanation of how your dog (or turtle, or human, etc!) She goes to the door, rejects the notion of going out, turns toward her dinner; goes back to the door, because clearly this human is not listening.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” It really looked like a game of tag. I’m running a crowdfunding campaign now to raise funds to publish it. Eventually the weaker juvenile flew to be with its loud sibling. … Birds Bald Eagle raptors'

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Through its campaign, www.ExposeAnimalAbusers.org , the animal protection organization is promoting model legislation that state legislatures could enact. But it’s not just about how animal abusers end up also hurting or killing humans,” said Wells. “It Tags: news. Visit www.aldf.org.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

The most telling part of Krupp's post, which addresses and questions the way women are used in PeTA campaigns has nothing to do with that controversial concept at all. With more than 2 million members across the globe, PETA is the largest animal advocacy group and comparable in size to the human rights organization, Amnesty International.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Better yet, HSUS could start a campaign targeting at Google's DOG AND CAT SKIN Trade. I'm not easily stunned by the behavior of humans, particularly when they are motivated by economic concerns, but I'm stunned by the reluctance of powerful people backed by a lot of money to advocate for. what they're supposed to be advocating for.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture."

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

There, a conservation campaign led by Naga conservation activist Bano Haralu, based on community education and the promise of economic retooling, has successfully halted the massive slaughter of the hundreds of thousands of Amur Falcons who gather at the Doyang Reservoir. It is often hard to be positive. by Scott Weidensaul.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. The campaign should not demand huge changes in society.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Sincerely, Julie Zickefoose Tags: cranes , sandhill crane hunting , sandhill cranes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

About Animal Defenders International (ADI): With offices in Los Angeles, London and Bogota, Animal Defenders International (ADI) campaigns to protect animals in entertainment; replacement of animals in experiments; worldwide traffic in endangered species; vegetarianism; factory farming; pollution and conservation.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

We give them human names and provide them with the same amenities we enjoy as humans. I don't think anyone is campaigning for "farm" animals to become pets, as many of us don't even think the family cat should be the family cat. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

One is Lanny Davis, an influential lobbyist who was a personal lawyer for President Bill Clinton and also campaigned for Hillary. The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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