Animal Person

APRIL 2, 2009

Pounds ) A pet store in Connecticut received a shipment of products last week. Products, meaning rabbits. The rabbits were produced, of course, by a rabbit mill that supplies "pet" stores with live creatures whom humans will purchase without having any idea of the conditions they were produced under.

Rabbits 100

Rabbits Connecticut Compassion Vegan 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The main difference is that Foer doesn't eat meat (though he does, as it turns out, eat some animal products) and he challenges the cultural assumptions that tell us that some animals are for petting and some are for eating. Compassion, as most people define it, is virtuous, but it smacks of mercy, which screams subjection.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Compassion for animals is part of the planet’s social and environmental equation.

Fur 100

Fur Animal Welfare Ethics Primates 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. We have a tendency as a society to anthropomorphize our animals, especially our pets.

Emotional 100

Emotional Farm Animal Farmed Animals Agenda 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And if it's not, and sometimes I feel it isn't, at least I am able to return to productivity, and even visit Deb's tribute without completely breaking down. This is why we aren't anthropomorphizing when we speak of the compassion or love or grief that dogs show. But let's back up a bit.

Dogs 100

Dogs Pit Bulls Greyhounds Kennels 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. Scott Plous Middletown, Conn.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40