Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S.

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Animal Person

MARCH 19, 2009

There's already a fairly large number of comments that raise the usual topics against vegans and veganism and I didn't see any Animal Person readers in there, though there's no law that says you have to use the same username everywhere so that might not be evidence of anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

US District Judge Jeffrey Miller called the hearing in San Diego after Sea World asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that names five orcas as plaintiffs in the case. Sea World's lawyer, Theodore Shaw, called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

It’s an ethical dilemma: Let the eagles alone, with the risk that they may die out in 20 years, or film them with as minimal disturbance as possible, with the hope that the visuals will have an impact on people and help extend their existence. Evidence shows that it has been shot, a serious problem that is surprisingly left hanging. (A

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing. A selected list of books for “further reading,” covers both bird and art technique books. They are good basic lists, though I think selected web sites could also have been included.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2009

The danger is that the amendments will be made and the bill will be signed into law. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. On Friday, April 3rd, Montana Governor Brain Schweitzer returned House Bill 418 to the legislature with suggestions for amendments. PLEASE TAKE ACTION. The letter was written to the Montana legislature.

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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. Allocation of Wildlife by Law – Public participation is essential in development of wildlife management policies. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I recall one day when his sister-in-law was speaking with him about what she was feeding her children, and it wasn't a vegan-centered conversation. Sister-in-law doesn't disagree with what TD says about hot dogs, but says: "Everything in moderation." Tags: Ethics Language. Sometimes permanently. I think it was about hot dogs.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

Our guide through the woods and towns of Indiana is one Nathan Lochmueller, who looks back to tell the tale of a coming of age that involves a lot of crawling through the woods on breeding-bird surveys, a lot of beer, and a few scrapes with implacable forces like the law, armed KKK members, and snapping turtles.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. Tags: Books Ethics Language. And perhaps my favorite: "[I]f healthy, homeless humans were rounded up and killed, no one would call the killing facilities 'shelters'" (55).

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Animal Person

JUNE 30, 2009

However, the law in most states where there is live dog racing specifically states that if there is to be gambling there must be live dog racing. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Greyhound Matters. If "won permission" sounds odd, that's because not every track wants to force live dogs to race. Not 80% better--80% lame.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Then there are the other uses and a question of ethics: Let’s say you know where Kirtland’s Warblers or Whooping Cranes are nesting and you want to document it with a drone…is that harassment? You may think these are extreme situations but we don’t have great laws in place for drones yet.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it. Foie gras is the diseased liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through pipes shoved down their throats.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. But my stance is also categorized under Gray Matters because, in my perfect world, we wouldn't be spaying or neutering anybody.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

In other words, the Law of Attraction tells them that if they start thinking about the "evil" in the world, they will bring evil to them. Tags: Ethics Language. Inevitably, I hear that "what you spend your time on multiplies and you bring to you what you spend time on." They choose instead to focus on "higher" or "cleaner" matters.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

In this modern age it's much easier to email videos, I could post the video-taped message on the HERO site to educate others about Nosey's plight and to urge the FWC to confiscate her and prosecute the circus to the full extent of the law. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. That was a lot, I know.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

RPA's position statement opposing violence and other antisocial behavior in association with animal advocacy is available at www.RPAforAll.org or by request. Donations to RPA are tax deductible as allowed by law and may be made at the above address or www.RPAforAll.org. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 9, 2008

Dear Professor Burgess-Jackson, The Michigan Law Review ’s companion journal First Impressions this week published an online symposium on Agricultural Animals and Animal Law. Best regards, Bradley Moore Executive Editor of First Impressions Michigan Law Review

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions. It's probably going to come down to culture , I thought. Lions aren't food in our culture. But that wasn't it either.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

As the economy continues to falter, law enforcement officers in Kentucky and throughout the country are seeing major increases in the number of unwanted and neglected horses, some abandoned on public land, others left to starve by their owners.". Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles.

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Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

Derrick Jensen comes right out of the gate mentioning Hitler (as opposed to later as per Godwin's Law ) in " Taking Shorter Showers Doesn't Cut it: Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change ," which might annoy some people. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. What are your thoughts?

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Animal Person

APRIL 17, 2009

We pass clean air laws, we tax the heck out of cigarettes, we sue the tobacco industry. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Their ability to behave in a responsible way was being undermined by the marketing and of course the addictive nature of the product. So, that means government could step in and so what do we do?

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 6, 2007

I thought you might be interested in the new AnimalBlawg , an animal law blog by law students. I've copied a blog post about this panel below.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Additionally, Wildlife Services puts little emphasis on using non-lethal methods, and puts few resources towards developing new, ethical non-lethal research; • Unnecessary and Fiscally Unsound - Taxpayers are paying the bill for these activities, and Wildlife Services fails to protect the businesses it supposedly helps.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” But a change in the common law (which Germany does not have) may be the most likely of all. What is the common law? Salem and Andrew N.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

For example, Charles Patterson wrote in Eternal Treblinka —a book specifically endorsed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals—that "the road to Auschwitz begins at the slaughterhouse." Addendum 3: When I was a law student at Wayne State University in the early 1980s, I took a graduate philosophy course in ethics with Bruce Russell.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2007

Hello Keith: I recently completed a documentary on the science, ethics, and politics of animal agriculture entitled "Beyond Closed Doors." The film contains personal interviews with prominent professionals such as Dr. Temple Grandin, Dr. Bernard Rollin, Dr. John Webster, Steve Wise, and many others.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2009

He believed, of course, that one ought always to do one's duty and also that only acts motivated by respect for moral law have moral worth. Kant's ethics is as much an ethics of self-esteem as it is an ethics of duty.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. Under the moral law, all beings who have interests are subjects of rights, while all those who in addition to having interests, are capable of grasping the demands of duty, are subjects of duties.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

At issue in the case is the constitutionality of a decade old law passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1999. That law, U.S. The law also made it a crime to sell videos in which animals were tortured to death by being burned alive, as well as videos of illegal dog fights. Today, the U.S. I don’t think so.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2010

Stevens , the Supreme Court last year overturned a 1999 law banning depictions of animal cruelty on the grounds of overbreadth. The justices were legitimately concerned that the law could impede valid speech. To the Editor: Re “ Disgusting but Not Illegal ” (editorial, Aug. In United States v.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law requiring that all whole eggs sold in the state conform to the provisions of Proposition 2, the humane farming law that was embraced by state voters in a landslide in 2008. In California last week, Gov.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Hi Professor Burgess-Jackson, I just wanted to let you know that I recently launched an animal law blog with a couple of my colleagues at Pace Law School. I was wondering whether you could write an entry in your animal law blog announcing our website. Perhaps you will find it interesting. This is the link to the blog.

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