Critter News

APRIL 11, 2009

As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. Unfortunately, there are way more of them than there are vegetarians and vegans. Tags: UK meat pigs. It's a 5-minute film about conditions for pigs in the UK. Produced by Compassion in World Farming. Don't live in a cloud.wake up!

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is doubtful that the best approach to conserving grain is to become a vegetarian.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." "The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. I wish their mission was to end animal agriculture.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

If PCRM can get more people to try a "vegan diet" for 21 days as suggested, which is what in my experience used to be called "strict vegetarianism" (and which is no better), that's an actual decrease in animal use for those people. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. If they did that, they'd most certainly get pounced on.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I've also found that there are all kinds of activists and videos and concerts and demonstrations and books that I've never even heard of, that cause omnivores and vegetarians to go vegan. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. That's how critical mass is reached, if critical mass is what it's going to take. You can probably guess why.

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Animal Person

JULY 9, 2009

I do know people who became vegan (also after watching " Earthlings ") who are now vegetarians, pescetarians and run-of-the-mill omnivores. 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. What does this mean?

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

Or educate my neighbors about the alternatives to poker at the dog track (and of course, about dog racing). Or bake some vegan cookies for a vegetarian friend who's convinced that she cannot survive without eggs and butter. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I'd rather trap a feral cat and have her spayed.

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