Animal Person

MAY 29, 2009

If it steers (sorry about the pun) people toward animals raised in places other than factory farms, where they will still be killed, I'm not thrilled. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film Food and Drink Delray Beach Film Festival Food Inc. My guess is I'll get some of both. Will you not check it out? veganism.

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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. ” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It saddens me, and I find it extremely disturbing, that a five-year old child is giddy, and his parents (and the journalists on this program) are so pleased that he killed a 35-40-year old alligator. Let's deconstruct a few details: The young boy shot the alligator, who had been trapped , in the head and killed him.

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Is what he did like hunting?

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

Second, if the people who believe this would eat all of their "meat" unseasoned and raw, after having killed the source animal with their bare hands and ripped open the carcass with nothing but said hands and some teeth, I'd feel like maybe their argument was at least sincere. We simply cannot survive without killing them!

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. residents believe that it's wrong to kill animals for their pelts, but the pelt industry is legal.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The next argument is usually something along the lines of: But animals in the wild might starve to death, and get injured, maimed or killed by predators! Finally, people who object to our moral stance jump species and say we should object to the lion killing the gazelle. Tags: Ethics Language. Yes, that's true.

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Said operation will be housed in the back of a building that has a Subway sandwich shop in the front.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future." What does that look like for pigs who have been brought into this world for the sole purpose of being products to be traded and eventually killed? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. 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? Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

Mixing Bowl seems like a great place to raise awareness that perfectly delicious, healthy meals and desserts, including kids' birthday cakes and wedding cakes, can be made without killing anyone. I know that the average person doesn't look at it this way, but is a birthday cake really worth killing someone for?

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Animal Person

JUNE 12, 2010

They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed. When one of the bad guys is killed the other bad guys will feast on his body. Of course the man's a good guy--he hasn't killed and eaten his dog. Tags: Ethics Film Language " animal rights "The Road movie review.

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Animal Person

JUNE 26, 2009

Felony animal cruelty is the cruel killing of an animal, and he is also being charges with 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body.) The four counts of burglary he is being charged with carry a heftier sentence than the animal killing. And people who want to kill those they cannot control scare me.

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Animal Person

MAY 2, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters. I wish Dougie a beautiful life – one which he deserved from birth and one which I hope all greyhounds will enjoy in the very near future. Click here for more on Dougie's story, including videos (nothing graphic, just more coverage of the story).

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. If you kill animals or pay someone to do so for you, you support animal cruelty. Contestant: "And turkeys.". I think you actually support animal cruelty."

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

When in the position of having the choice, which so far is always, I'd rather choose not to have someone killed for me. This is a tough one to even dignify as it's not a good reason for killing someone. Justice for beings whom we create for the sole purpose of killing, but who nevertheless want to live. Because it tastes good.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In fact, both books glorify small farms (though Foer is more selective), and both have the support of people who create and kill animals. It's okay to produce animals to use them and then kill them (or kill them to use their parts as food). Tags: Books Ethics. it's "not eating animals.".

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. Nonviolence" is much more difficult to finesse if you're killing animals for a living. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Is it fair?

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

In " Prominent Horseman Faces Questions About Neglect ," Joe Drape of the New York Times reports: Four undernourished and neglected former racehorses belonging to Ernie Paragallo, a prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner, were rescued from a New York kill pen last month, one step from being slaughtered.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? Butcher plainly speaks of the use of horses and that those not usable perhaps should be killed. Do we recommend killing those children?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

And the "strict ethical vegan" to come.) And then it proceeds to: "None of these questions, however, make any consideration of whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. And great timing: between Jonathan Safran Foer and Thanksgiving.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. Tags: Ethics Language. Some days you just can't win.

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Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

She expressed her gratitude for those she kills in her book, as well: "When I first ate a meal from one of our lambs, I thought I'd be upset, since it'd been so hard to take them to the abbattoir. You won't be part of a kill and disassembly line but you will be killed, one at a time" (159).

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. Related articles by Zemanta Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies (scienceblog.com). macworld.com). takepart.com).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 13, 2010

Are the humans providing Brian with something he is profiting from (maybe hard work, he'd say), and when they stop he will kill them? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language Family farms Maple Farm Animal Sanctuary Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. Can the humans come and go as they please?

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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

JUNE 10, 2009

That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. That tells me that we're still at war, as we are going to continue to kill fish because we can and we want to. "We are fighting a war against fish, and we are.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

When I think about the language that has been used by people who kill animals or have someone else do it for them, a couple of years ago the "compassionate" trend began. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron. That one left me speechless. "My

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Animal Person

JANUARY 1, 2010

But then I wasn't able to put that theory into practice once weighed against, say, the millions of dogs and cats who are going to be killed for the brutal crime of homelessness. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. Do you agree with that?

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? Tags: animal experimentation animal research. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"?

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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. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that.

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My In this case, the spirit of the corpse. And for the animal, it means death.

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