Animal Person

MAY 7, 2009

I don't know if she has ever claimed to know about the dangerous carcinogen found in grilled chicken, but to hawk such a product after the information and experts she has presented to her audience is the height of hypocrisy. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

And I want Baby Sky to grow up in a home where there is just as much respect for chickens and calves and fishes as there is for greyhounds and cats and people. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters Language Thanksgiving veganism. Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story.

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

require hundreds of pig, cow and chicken corpses? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. Their values are simply a reflection of the dominant culture, which they have either consciously or otherwise chosen not to challenge. What would you do? I'm thinking leave town is the best answer.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Not approving the institutionalized slaughter of the horses we claim to hold so dear lowers that value.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She had one perfect opportunity to present herself as pro-animal rights when Oprah (laughingly) asked: But what if the cows and the chickens are treated really, really nicely. Alicia (laughing): Well, I'd have to see the cows and the chickens. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. would you eat them)? What do you think?

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. 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? Like I said, the entire animal rights "ethic" is both cynical and dishonest.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

Food for my soul does not involve grilled greyhound any more than it involves grilled chicken. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. Food for my soul involves nutrient-rich plants and grains and legumes that provide me with just about everything I need to be in fantastic health (let's not have the B12 discussion).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. Tags: Ethics Language. The choice isn't the wild or the farm.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

One manager told PETA Eats that most people prefer the vegetarian lettuce wraps over those with chicken. Everything else has chicken stock, oyster sauce or non-vegan sugar. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. Vegan dishes are among the bestsellers. Balderdash, I tell you!

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Vegan Vegetarian PETA Chickens 100

Animal Person

JUNE 5, 2009

I think that it's odd, for instance, that someone so ensconced in human rights does not notice the parallel when she grabs her grilled chicken caesar salad for lunch. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language Animal rights Babycakes Dreena Burton Gluten-free Baking Human rights Steve Best The Left veganism Wild Justice.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

But then I remembered that, as a vegan, I purchased and prepared the flesh of cows and chickens for my husband for nearly six years because I knew that if the change didn't come from him he would likely end up resenting me, plus he might even go back to eating and using animals. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Lifestyle Vegan Vegetarian New York Times 100

Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Parlay greyhounds aren't for entertainment to they're not for eating to chickens aren't for eating either (this one takes a couple of minutes + a willing receiver). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And look at it this way, you can spend more time in your $85,000 car! You think I'm talking about someone specific?)

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Vegan Greyhounds Sanctuary Animal Sanctuary 100

Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Especially when that group doesn't appear to want us to stop using animals.

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights Huffington Post language sentience spirituality veganism William Horden. This is indeed a matter of conscience.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

I wouldn't do it to a dog, and I shouldn't do it to a chicken/sheep/cow/pig. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. And now I regret that because I realize there is simply no way to raise an animal with the intent to kill that animal and call it anything but betrayal. It's just not right. A treacherous giving up to an enemy.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

and chickens don't?) Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. Dolphins used to be positioned below chimps, but recent studies have shown the bottlenose to be more intelligent. They also have distinct personalities (and chimps don't? and dogs don't? There are currently 112 comments on this article.

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

There are new Francione-style abolitionists and new people to veganism who debate about the ethics of consuming eggs from their neighbor's chickens. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. But when my dad, whose favorite food is kielbasa, says he wants to go vegan (which made his 76th birthday present a cinch--a box of vegan cookbooks!),

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Vegan Morals Chickens Animal 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. In a possible world in which chimpanzees consent— really consent, not just “say yes”—to being eaten, it would be morally permissible to eat them. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

All we do as vegans is take a reality--the reality of the sentience of cats, dogs, horses, chickens, sheep, cows, etc. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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