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Humane Society University to Offer Courses in Fall 2009

Critter News

Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.

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On Small Victories

Animal Person

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? restaurants by animal rights activists."

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

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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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act."

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Not in words, of course, but they can answer in ways that we can understand if we are paying attention. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. But we can ask, and they can answer. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

Clearly, in the face of near universal condemnation from the internet masses, there is only one course of action for me. This Lion should not be shot, as it is a protected reserve that forbids shooting. You can get a pretty good idea of the case for the prosecution by reading my good friend Charlie’s take on the story.

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