Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. Some even suffered from parasite infestation and overgrown hooves. 50 surviving horses were rescued.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily. Consider Charlie Stenholm, a former Texas Congressman turned agricultural lobbyist. The industry is losing that argument in some segments of society, he said." Doublespeak at its worst.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Menu suggestions and recipes for a cruelty-free, planet-friendly Thanksgiving feast are available here. McWilliams is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University at San Marcos and a recent fellow in the agrarian studies program at Yale University. He thinks we would rightly "frame the matter as a dire political issue."

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. We have already seen that Jonathan thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily. What does he think about killing animals?

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