Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. And not all organizations that advocate for animals claim to have a "genuine environmentalist ethic," and the ones that do must subscribe to his ethic or they're not genuine?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. "We Their investigations produce results.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Today's message and call to action is from David Cantor of Responsible Policies for Animals (thanks, Mike!). Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Meanwhile, donate when you can, get friends to become Responsible Policies for Animals members --and thank you for your support! . Best wishes, . David Cantor.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Charles Larson fused monkeys' necks to their skulls and deprived them food five days per week to make them cry out in a specific manner according to Concerned Citizens for Ethical Research? 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

MARCH 30, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry!

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Regardless, they are joining Friends of Animals and Hearts for Animals on Saturday December 5. The well being of the horses should be the ideal of every organization whose mandate is to put animal protection ideals first - especially when they ask for donations based on that mandate. What do you think about the description?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

First let's deconstruct: The recession has caused a decrease in demand for animal products. Perhaps just as ironic is the mission of the NASDA, which includes "protection of animal and plant health, stewardship of our environment, and promoting the vitality of our rural communities.". Translation? We don't really know.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! David Cantor Executive Director Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc. Responsible Policies for Animals’ (RPA’s) mailing to the 50 states’ top executives reflects RPA’s innovative approach. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Another went out last Friday.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

I understand this is a children's book, but particularly if you're trying to be a voice for animals, it would behoove you to make connections that might be missed otherwise. For instance, the animals are enslaved. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. They are forced to work in factories owned by a hideous woman, Gretsch.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? restaurants by animal rights activists."

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

The tactics have made PeTA "the largest animal advocacy group" "with more than 2 million members across the globe." And not necessarily for animals. Especially when that group doesn't appear to want us to stop using animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. daily, in the blogosphere.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site. It is not a free country for animals in laboratories, but it is a comparatively free one for you. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

Why is it always open season on children as long as you're teaching them about mainstream beliefs, regardless of how ethically contradictory they may be? If you want to teach kids to respect animals, you can't teach them that it's okay to use and kill them if you like the taste of their flesh. Those messages aren't aligned.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

Too much of me in the comments wasn't a great idea for Animal Person, in my opinion. Stay tuned for more lessons from four years of blogging at Animal Person! Tags: Activism Ethics Gray Matters Language. Lesson #5 It's difficult to not preach to the choir. Here's one area where I failed miserably.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. He differentiates those animals from what he calls "the cute animals" which is important and one of the few passages that I appreciated in this series.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Big fail here for Animal Person. I didn't do the right thing for Animal Person. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Blogging veganism writing. Lesson #17 Treat your blog like a business. But I didn't. I should have developed a business plan for the blog, with a mission and goals.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

People who care only about humans, for example, will not be persuaded by “old” vegetarian arguments, for those arguments rested on concern for animals. People who care about both humans and animals will have two reasons, rather than one, to abstain from meat—provided, of course, that the arguments are good ones.

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