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On "Compassion," "Nonviolence" and "Justice"

Animal Person

Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animal rights. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. I don't think so.

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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

Critter News

Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. The cooperatives got together and instituted what we'll call a killing program; they retired cows," he said.

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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. They just think this is the right thing to do and we don’t. Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped. The people that are doing this are really kind-hearted,” he said.

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

10,000 Birds

In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. There were 23 cows killed; some had to be shot up in trees where they were stuck. The second responded as I would- with immediate concern and compassion. They did the right thing. Chaos and insulation.

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On The Goode Family and Infiltration

Animal Person

One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. macworld.com).

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On Not Eating Animals

Animal Person

In fact, both books glorify small farms (though Foer is more selective), and both have the support of people who create and kill animals. It's okay to produce animals to use them and then kill them (or kill them to use their parts as food). There is nothing inherently unjust about viewing sentient nonhumans as commodities.