10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. This makes perfect sense.

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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? restaurants by animal rights activists."

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

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." Like I said, the entire animal rights "ethic" is both cynical and dishonest.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

The question of course is, are you really significantly decreasing suffering? Big fail here for Animal Person. I didn't do the right thing for Animal Person. Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!). And I still wrestle with opportunities to decrease suffering.

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