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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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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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 standing and the rights associated with it must be enforceable against the government so that the public can hold it accountable.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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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. Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans. His "subject of rights" is what philosophers now call a moral patient.

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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. I'll tweet ( [link] )--or you can see updates over on the right column. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Greyhound Matters. Not 80% better--80% lame. Wish me luck!

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

mikey, my stance can be seen in the posts about Project Treadstone (and if you type Project Treadstone into the Google Search box just below my half-blind, diabetic greyhound, Violet Rays, on the right, you'll get a dozen more posts). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. But who cares about me? What do you all t hink?

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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. Do you use the idea of "evil" in your thinking and processing of animal rights and veganism? Tags: Ethics Language. They choose instead to focus on "higher" or "cleaner" matters.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism. Nosey the African elephant is with Liebling Family circus in Florida, right now they are in Mount Dora, this outfit violates animal welfare regulations on a regular basis.

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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.

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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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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

I will conclude with some remarks about the rights of animals. When it is asked whether animals have rights, and whether human beings have duties to them, the question, I think, is partly moral and partly verbal. It is this latter view, I believe, that is in the minds of some of those who deny that animals have rights.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2008

Their only tool is the law of noncontradiction, which says that no proposition can be both true and false. If their own values commit them to changing the way they treat animals, why haven't they changed the way they treat animals? The answer is that not everyone has thought through the implications of his or her values.

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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. But the reality that I have observed is that people cannot be trusted to do the right thing, particularly when the information they are being bombarded with is not accurate. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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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. For Kant, then, worthy acts are (given human fallibility) a proper subset of right acts.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Though factory-farming and biotechnological techniques massively violate the moral rights of farm animals, they have no remedy. Because Congress has pre-empted the field, states have been unable to enact additional laws that require meat producers to provide consumers with accurate and relevant product information.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. In California last week, Gov. This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

19): The Supreme Court should reinstate a crucial 1999 federal law banning the commercial sale of videos depicting animal cruelty. Now that the law has been struck down, there has been a resurgence in these snuff films readily available for sale over the Internet. This is not speech.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

We are headed in the right direction, but need to fight to push the changes through. It could take up to 18 years for them to be phased in, if the law should pass. The use of wire cages isn’t being addressed, but should be in the future. A factory-farmed egg-producing hen’s lifespan is less than two years.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

The chimp would examine it and quickly slam the meat right back at him. But aside from the fact that the truth of this ethical assumption is not obvious, it is not true that monkeys are man’s nearest relatives. Hume’s Law says that one cannot infer an “ought” statement from an “is” statement.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2008

You are right that what is needed is “a sustained effort by world governments and other institutions to do something about it” and that “the problems are global and so, in the end, are the solutions.” One key solution, as you note, rests with the United States Senate: the Law of the Sea Convention.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 9, 2007

Those who break duly enacted laws should be punished. If they believe the law they've broken is unjust, they should take their punishment as a way of (1) demonstrating their sincerity and (2) opening a dialogue with those who disagree with them. I've been a proponent of animal rights for more than a quarter of a century.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them. The degree of restriction placed on human behavior, furthermore, is relatively slight. But not so far as seriously to limit man's domination of the world.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 6, 2007

Here is an excellent article by Gayle Dean on the Bush Administration's excessive use of the rhetoric of terror, especially as it is being selectively applied to animal rights advocates.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. On May 24, Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the bill into law.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 2, 2007

But you may not know that we have filed a lawsuit against Mendes Calf Ranch for its violation of California animal cruelty laws. While our lawsuit to stop this cruel practice is pending in court, there is more we can do for these animals right now. Video footage here.) Information about the campaign can be found here.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners’ Rights ” (news article, July 23): Any law that deems a dog as dangerous or vicious based on appearance, breed or phenotype is unfair and discriminatory. Canine temperaments are widely varied, and behavior cannot be predicted by physical features.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

But this reply is based on a confusion between the praiseworthiness or blameworthiness of a moral agent and the rightness or wrongness of the action of an agent. Moral concepts such as “right” and “wrong” apply only to autonomous beings. KBJ: Martin cannot be serious. This argument cuts too deep, however.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. In some countries (e.g.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Consumers are right to be wary; rBGH threatens to undermine the safety of nature’s most perfect food. June 29, 2007 The writer, a law professor, collaborated with Dr. Miller on a published article in Nature Biotechnology and on a book chapter several years before the published article in Nature Biotechnology. Kershen Norman, Okla.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14), unfairly characterized PETA’s efforts. Newkirk President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., Few people know the depth of our work, as it is mostly our stunts that make the news.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

As the Newsweek story indicates, 38 states have passed laws giving women the right to breastfeed in any public or private place she’d otherwise be allowed to be. as well as the District of Columbia offer women no protection or very limited protection of their right to breastfeed their children. Breast-feeding does just that.

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