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New Hub for Animal Rights

Animal Person

Stephanie Ernst, formerly of Change.org , has started a new space called " Animal Rights and AntiOppression " and she has invited yours truly to post there! I am Mary Martin, and my first post is " On the Neglect of Animals by The Left." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I'll be posting as Mary Martin, because.

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On Taxes, Veganism and "Pets"

Animal Person

Someone wrote me and, though the person clearly was trolling to insult someone, s/he accused me of not being a vegan because of greyhounds Violet Rays and Charles Hobson Booger, III (no mention of Emily, which made me feel terribly neglectful). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. Do you agree with that?

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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

10,000 Birds

Other birders might however owe their very lives to this neglect. Here is a little comparison (Black Mamba courtesy of Tad Arensmeier and Wikipedia , and excuse the horrible prinia crop): Disturbing, right? Many birders might regret this one day. The classic habitat of the Brown Prinia on Java. Let me first deal with the regret.

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

What about the individuals right there in the laboratory? I find that though utilitarians like Peter Singer do have a certain consistency that lulls me into thinking all is well and fair and just, the flip side of that is a startling neglect of the individual. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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On Going Vegan

Animal Person

I neglected to take the camera into the courtyard in the beginning, though I did bring the hounds and their beds. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering. Violet was spooked early on, but Charles stayed for the entire evening. But why cause suffering at all when you don't need to?

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Tom Regan on Human Chauvinism

Animal Ethics

There is a neglected other side to the anthropomorphic coin. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 31 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) This is human chauvinism.

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Steven M. Wise on Farm Animals

Animal Ethics

Their ethological needs and direct interests are neglected to the extent that their needs are not as congruent with higher productivity and profit. Though factory-farming and biotechnological techniques massively violate the moral rights of farm animals, they have no remedy. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials.