Animal Person

JULY 15, 2009

In my experience, knowing your audience and tailoring your approach (but not the substance of your message), is what converts people to veganism. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Moving people along is more art than science, and for some people it's far more emotion-based than logic-based. when they're ready.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Every person who claims that there is some kind of divine mandate that makes us inherently not only superior to nonhuman animals but permitted to do with them as they please, should experience Creature Quotes. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language Amy Gutman animal rights J.M. I'm reminded of Amy Gutman's Introduction to J.M.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

As if humans don't assess and judge things, people and experiences all day long and use those judgments to form a future course of action or decide which relationships they do and don't wish to pursue. Ethics and the law don't necessarily move together. Tags: Activism Ethics Language.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Animal research is too lucrative for the university/government/pharma complex to risk macaques on YouTube and the public judging the asinine and repetitive experiments many researchers know they live on. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. At a tax payer cost of $472,370? For how many years?

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Boone's wife) was largely responsible for Oklahoma State University canceling its planned anthrax experiments on baboons after she threatened to cancel the Pickens' $5 million donation to the university's vet school. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Madeleine Pickens (yes, that Pickens--T.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

But they're already on a path of compassion and caring about those other than themselves, so in my experience they're the perfect people to gently nudge in the direction of concern for sentient nonhumans. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. For all we know, occasional viable crosses between humans and chimpanzees are possible.* If such off-spring are ever produced, what will their legal status be?

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Yes, sterilizing someone--anyone--without their consent is an act of dominance. Hence, it's a Gray Matter.) And this is one of them.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper also represents a turning point in science, from an earlier age when animals for experiment would be plucked from the road or the river, to a new era of standardized, mass-produced organisms that can be shipped right to the laboratory door. Tags: Economics Ethics. Stay tuned. I look forward to the rest of the series.

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Animal Person

APRIL 23, 2009

Of course there are oodles of vegetarians who mention veganism and how difficult and restricting it is, and overall I'm having a fairly disheartening experience. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And I'm experiencing the rarity of my beliefs. After all, who I am doesn't stop at vegan.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

I don't disagree with Herbert, but what if I wrote: Most people don't want to hear about the capacity of nonhumans to experience pain, pleasure, boredom or frustration, and President Obama would rather walk through fire than do anything other than acquire a pure breed puppy or pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving (though that one remains to be seen).

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

Once we are no longer so advanced, should we then be valued less and then subjected to experiments for this new and "unique" species of the future? Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical ethics medical research. Are there even more unique versions of humanity on their way? How about this? It's all effed up to me.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. And the sacrifices they were willing to make, and the changes they felt compelled to make in order to transition out of a life of using animals for their profit are awe-inspiring. For all of us.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

If you're going to claim that it was good for Native Americans so it's good for us, please know that they had an ecological ethic that we simply don't share. They say they are taking the abundant gifts Mother Earth gives them and they are grateful for the sacred experience of communing with her. Are you annoyed yet? .

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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. They're not saying, "try veganism for 21 days."

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Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

And by phase I mean I have intense and frequent experiences with them or around them that cause me to learn more about them than I thought I ever wanted to learn. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And each time I learn the same things. They all want to live their lives, free of pain and free of our "management."

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Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank. Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics. Did I thank the Loft Literary Center for all its support, or the Friends of the Saint Paul Library for hosting the MN Book Awards?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

I don't know, maybe 20 years of experience. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. Does anyone walk into a room or sit at a table and request a moratorium on jokes about what we do to animals? I imagine people I know then calling me "paranoid" or "defensive."

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters Language Thanksgiving veganism. This Thanksgiving can be a just one: Justice for beings who are like us in the most important of ways.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

My adult-adult experience was that it was actually painful at times to live with someone who ate animals and I wondered how long I could deal with it. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. What I had going for me was that early on my husband said, "I feel the same way you do, but I'm just not ready yet."

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

You get the idea at YouTube but the experience is vastly different on a great television. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Film Environmentalism Factory Farm Glenn Close Home Veganism Winged Migration. I watched Home earlier in the week and you can watch it on YouTube here , though a huge flat screen is definitely preferable.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

If there were ever a movement devoted to the principles set out in The Vegetarian Myth and if it proved successful, such a movement would easily result in a spectacular reduction in the suffering and torture of animals, compared to what they experience today in factory farms and due to ecosystem devastation.

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Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Here's what I learned and will do: Though I recently ended a complete nightmare of an experience on a couple of boards of directors and have sworn off them, I might have to get involved, perhaps at the committee level. The board made the decisions based on what other communities have done (uneventfully and successfully, by their standards).

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

Cats are slaves to no one, at least according to their reputation, which in my experience holds true. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I don't trust people who hate cats because there's something else going on there. Cats represent something: independence.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

The PF Chang update, in case you haven't seen the response from the restaurant , is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don't eat non-vegan sugar, there aren't many options. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink.

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Vegan Ethics Animal Game 100

Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Parlay greyhounds aren't for entertainment to they're not for experimenting on to neither are mice (again, takes a minute, but I've done it). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And evidently the dogs are interpreted as an invitation, as when I'm not with them no one stops to talk to me (hmmmm).

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Vegan Greyhounds Sanctuary Animal Sanctuary 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I've used the term "animal activism" lately as an experiment. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I'm trying to gauge people's receptivity to what I'm about to say. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights."

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

It's probably more powerful if you were just there and have something to say about your "Dining Experience" (they ask which franchise and at what time you visited). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. I'm good like that--devastated for an hour or two, then pretty much neutral about anything.

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Vegan Vegetarian PETA Chickens 100

Animal Person

MAY 3, 2009

Though I have never had an issue with gluten, I have decided to lower my intake of it as an experiment, just to see if I feel any kind of difference. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Greyhound Matters. This, dear readers, is my new obsession. It's all good, and we'll get through this just fine.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

It's humbling to experience all of this for the first time in my nearly 43 years, from the showering in the morning and donning fancy clothes and make up, to commuting with thousands of my closest friends, to having to hire people to walk my dogs and spend time with them because I'm not home during the day.

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