Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Chance is so close!

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Industry 100

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). Tags: Books Ethics Language. But as the frequently-invoked Darwin would say, those differences are of degree, not kind.

Morals 100

Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. Authors who referred to their animals by given names were instructed to use a string of letters and numbers instead." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100