Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

Earthlings is considered one of the most persuasive documentaries ever made for its frank, straightforward presentation of the day-to-day practices in some of the largest industries in the world. The Earthlings trailer can be viewed at [link].

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

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! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

In fact, it’s hard to think of a wildlife watching activity I’m more conflicted about, other than perhaps alomost industrial levels of diving in fragile reefs (or the remains thereof). Trips Borneo ethics night' I love spotlighting, and I hate spotlighting.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

Bird feeding is a major industry. I think what pissed me off most about that video was that as the owl flew in to get the mouse and they yanked it away–the blatant teasing with a live mouse (which is a whole separate area of ethics) was grotesque to me. Lots of people do it, birders and non birders alike.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

residents believe that it's wrong to kill animals for their pelts, but the pelt industry is legal. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49).

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. Many animal supporters get caught up in fighting the food industry, but animal testing is as ugly and fundamental an issue. This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. This is an important issue.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Our hope is that these talented participants will help pave the way for a more ethical fashion industry in the future.”

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. The affecting cloak-and-dagger documentary “The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive.

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Animal Person

APRIL 17, 2009

It's probably not a bad place to start, but when this industry behaves in a way that undermines personal responsibility, then we've got problems and that's usually a place where people feel government intervention is warranted. We pass clean air laws, we tax the heck out of cigarettes, we sue the tobacco industry.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Each year, US zoos label thousands of nonhuman animals 'surplus' and treat them accordingly" (87).

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Many vegans also believe that bringing people onto this planet isn't ethical, but I'm more of the school that says that if you have the urge to parent, having a biological child isn't in opposition to veganism.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. See here for one sufficient ground. By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Instead, it seeks to reform it. Animal rights is neither progressive nor conservative.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about. I'm on my way.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. I do wish that the ethics section included guidance on the use of playback and that all the sections included titles or websites for further reading.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Let's deconstruct: The interview reminds me of how the industry views us and how little they know about the community of people who care about the lives of the animals brought into this world for one reason only: to kill and eat them. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Horses Without Carriages International does a great job of explaining and showing the injustices of the horse-drawn carriage industry around the world.). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. It is too risky to sacrifice the horses this way and would be doing them a grave injustice.".

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Animal Person

MAY 25, 2010

Also, as the mutual fund industry disclaimer says, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Saying that only nonviolence of a certain definition will lead to your goal isn't accurate. Maybe what you mean is: This is what I am willing to do in the service of this goal.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

To "help these industries survive this economic downturn and gain a solid footing for the future," NASDA is proposing a "bold solution: a plan to take extra inventories off the market to reduce supply, all while providing vital nutritious, protein-rich foods to those who are unable to afford them, which is in more demand now than ever before."

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

I can't think of another animal so hated by humans that they have actually created an industry to publicize their hatred and their wish to hurt and kill them. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Cats are slaves to no one, at least according to their reputation, which in my experience holds true. We don't say we hate cows.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Foot explains why this isn't the end of sealing and quotes a Fur Institute of Canada spokesperson who says: "The activists could have had an influence on the manner in which sealing is conducted - and they still could - if they want to talk and work with the people in the industry. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

to turn to industrial account (natural resources). b. Tags: Ethics Language. Also in impers. To cause to succeed, prosper. It gets interesting in the 1800s. Check out what happens. To ‘work’ (a mine, etc.); To utilize for one's own ends, treat selfishly as mere workable material (persons, etc.); to ‘make capital out of’.

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Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Doing it at the dog track when you don't believe in dog racing is supporting an industry you don't believe in. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Possible segue into the tie to gaming that's artificial, but legislated, and needs to change. There are plenty of places to play poker here. You don't really care about the gas.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. There's no "compassion" in the process. No argument here.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

Some people make the switch for ethical reasons, others for health reasons, others out of concern for the environment, and some for a combination of all these reasons. (As These industries and corporations don't spend their huge advertising budgets for no reason. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

in those countries which supply the raw materials that North American industry and consumerism devour at a staggering rate). Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 109 n. Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 109 n.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

In a study first published in 2011, my colleagues and I showed how chimpanzees used in the biomedical and entertainment industries suffered from PTSD and other mental disorders – much like the psychiatric conditions I’ve documented in human torture survivors."

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

If you are among the growing number of Americans who think that animals deserve the same moral rights as people, you can help promote their rights by refusing to purchase products from industries that harm and exploit animals.

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