Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. Meanwhile, it's death they're wearing--not life.

Butcher 100

Butcher Ethics Killing Vegetarian 100

Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2009

In " Cows Killed by Lightning Strike ," by Angie Brown of the BBC Scotland, which today was updated to "Lightning Strike Kills Bullocks," we learn that Mr. McDougal was "very upset," numb and shocked by "the carnage he saw." Tags: Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

Slaughter 100

Slaughter Slaughtered Killing Ethics 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Her hurdle, you might not be surprised to learn, is cheese made from the milk of cows. She eats cow cheese daily. I was completely confident that she'd instantly get over her desire for cow cheese. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Food and Drink. Or just stayed away from the topic of cheese.

Vegan 100

Vegan Cows Cooking Ethics 100

Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Contestant (mortified, laughing, with hand over her mouth): "Cows.". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. I respect the lives of lions, no matter where they live, and I don't believe that they should be used for food any more than cows should. Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--".

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Lions Animal Cruelty Cruelty Chickens 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 27, 2009

I think I would have felt much better if Roth had developed that angle, helping the kids see that pigs and cows aren't that much different from dogs and cats, thereby providing logical building blocks for their thinking to develop. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Gray Matters Language. And I'd prefer a different message.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Animal 100

Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Let's deconstruct: The heading is: "Okay, so your steak comes from a cow that lived a happy life--but how did that life end?" It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life. The featured slaughterer is Bev Eggleston of EcoFriendly Foods, who says, “My perspective of what is humane is broader than how you harvest a cow.

Slaughter 100

Slaughter Slaughtered Cows Meat 100

Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. All they do thereafter is replace cows with chickens and pigs and fish. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. It's not difficult once you get the hang of it--it's just different at first.

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China Cats Dogs Speciesism 100

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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Zoos Pets Ponies Cruelty 100

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.

Horse Slaughter 100

Horse Slaughter Horses Unwanted Horses Slaughter 100

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?

Vegan 100

Vegan Cooking Chickens Cows 100

Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

We don't say we hate cows. And mentally competent people slice the throats of flailing cows hanging by one leg. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I can't think of another animal so hated by humans that they have actually created an industry to publicize their hatred and their wish to hurt and kill them.

Cats 100

Cats Dissection Cougars Pigs 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

How about an ethical adventure ? Perhaps they are taught that other cultures eat animals other than cows, chickens, fish and pigs, I don't know. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Removing skin and bones from a chicken breast was "slimy and gushy and. fun" said one (female) child. One is male.

Cooking 100

Cooking Chickens Factory Monkeys 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Or in the case of cheese made from the milk of cows. Tags: Ethics Language. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. And I don't mean to be obnoxious when I say that. Some days you just can't win.

Vegan 100

Vegan Laws Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights animal snuff films free speech Supreme Court Vamsee Juluri veganism. When is violence toward an animal in a video gratuitous? What do you think?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

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.

Gazelles 100

Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

Here's today's question: When a group of omnivores begins the inevitable round of jokes about veganism and even about slaughter ("I love turkeys--with sweet potatoes," or my cousin this week on Facebook, "I love the cow, therefore I eat her cheese," or something equally insensitive and ignorant), what do you do?

Vegan 100

Vegan Turkey Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The conclusion I'm left making is that the person saying "Because it tastes good" thinks that it's funny that a sentient being was raped (in the case of cows), mutilated (chickens, pigs and others) and slaughtered (everyone) because people find them tasty. It's never been so easy to have a Just Thanksgiving.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 100

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.

Lifestyle 100

Lifestyle Vegan Vegetarian New York Times 100

Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

And with regard to killing in order to survive, there's a difference between "killing" a carrot and killing a cow, whom you know is just as sentient as your dog or your child. Tags: Activism Books Ethics. If anyone has read the book, let me know your thoughts.

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. And you know how concerned I am about water on Planet Earth.

Vegan 100

Vegan Animal Suffering Rabbits 100

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.

Killing 100

Killing Vegan Goats Buffalo 100

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.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

JULY 9, 2009

Someone who goes from vegan to vegetarian to eating cows isn't really in a position to judge anyone. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. In short, though I'm just one person, I'm probably the most important person in his life and I support him. And I don't judge him.

Vegan 100

Vegan Cooking Vegetarian Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

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Portugal 2011 Deer Birds 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 158

Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Riddle me this: What's the difference between a cow and someone on death row? For one thing, the cow has not been convicted of some heinous crime. The cow will be executed simply because she is a cow. Where's the moral objection on behalf of cows? Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

Humane 100

Humane District of Columbia Cows Morals 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." That doesn't mean that 99% of dairy products are from family farms , as the average number of cows on each family farm is just over 100. The cows' tails swing in the breeze.

Family 100

Family Factory Farm Factory Farming Cows 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

But the cow part? The irony of the cow part is that much of this Oprah show was about slavery. The irony of the inclusion of the cow in The Girl Effect is that it swaps one form of slavery for another. Yesterday was World AIDS Day and I anticipated her doing a thoughtful program, which I think she did. Human slavery, of course.

Cows 100

Cows Vegan Trafficking Transported 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. Tags: Activism Language. I assume Francione does not disagree.

Psychology 100

Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. Why wouldn’t they?

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

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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Emotional Farm Animal Farmed Animals Agenda 100