Animal Person

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Her birthday present? We thought it was just a tag, but it's a benign mass that's been irritating her eyeball for months. After the presentations, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and/or offer feedback. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters. And speaking of eyes. Regards, Beth.

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

The cinematography did present a bit of a problem for me in that I often had difficulties with scale--I didn't know how wide or large things were, and though it might not necessary to know, I like to nonetheless. I think that any film that presents a problem should also provide solution. But that's me.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

But I should have presented a stronger use argument. If my goal was to present a perspective the dominant culture isn't used to hearing about, maybe. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights BBQ petting zoo pony rides veganism. They should never play poker.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). Forgot to hit "publish now" on this.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Tags: Activism Ethics Language. This is what happens when you ask someone with a background in linguistics to comment on a project. Headaches ensue.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

And once you are on the side of justice, it's impossible to present a rational alternative to animal farming. Tags: Books Ethics. What animals need isn't our mercy, it's our defense of their right to their lives without our domination. Once your priority is justice, your message isn't "eating animals".

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

To then present a widget that helps you eat seafood is strange. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganism. Oh, and this is a war we've declared and we're winning. An Inconvenient Truth for Fish (telegraph.co.uk).

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Bekoff and Pierce (a philosopher) are the perfect combination to write this book because whenever you're presenting the similarities of nonhuman animals to human animals, a philosophical conundrum is created for humans, who like to think that we are worlds different, and above nonhumans. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Objectively, however, though the use message is there, believe it or not, you can talk about enslaving animals and still not present a clear vegan message. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. I'm giving the book a vegan/animal rights message because that's my lens. Or any vegan message.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She had one perfect opportunity to present herself as pro-animal rights when Oprah (laughingly) asked: But what if the cows and the chickens are treated really, really nicely. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't. What do you think?

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

But by presenting that example to the reader, the author positions herself to then present an alternative that is worlds better by comparison. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Bev Eggleston EcoFriendly Foods Gourmet magazine happy meat Humane slaughter Temple Grandin. It is murder.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

I've officially been blogging for four years (1,329 posts and 5,441 comments) today, and as I (re)ponder whether I will continue, I'd like to present some lessons I've learned about blogging, veganism, people, "the movement," language and. Just know that the way you present yourself largely dictates who is going to visit your blog.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

The only way to speed up the pace is to stand your ground, not back down, and present a message that makes it clear whose side you're on. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Perhaps the pace of that evolution is glacial in some areas. All rodeos, everywhere, should be banned.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

There are new Francione-style abolitionists and new people to veganism who debate about the ethics of consuming eggs from their neighbor's chickens. But when my dad, whose favorite food is kielbasa, says he wants to go vegan (which made his 76th birthday present a cinch--a box of vegan cookbooks!),

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. This one gives us a look inside the mind of the vivisectionist, Daniel Engber.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

And in retrospect, all that did was present me as someone who appeared to have a need to be different or special, and a need for everyone to know what I believed in, whether or not they even cared. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Blogging veganism writing. Lesson #17 Treat your blog like a business.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

But the reason Hitler did not eat meat is irrelevant to the present argument. Although I am not aware that such evidence is available at the present time, let us suppose that (2) is well confirmed. At the present time, however, there is no reason to suppose that (4) is true. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The result is a really good read, a suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like a novel yet also probes real-life questions focused on the purpose of natural history museum collections and the ethics of closely gated “hobbyist” communities. The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

An argument of this type is in fact implicit in Benn’s position, and I will consider it presently. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Clearly, given Benn’s analysis, in order to establish that it is wrong to eat animals for food, another sort of argument is needed, an argument that is not based on an appeal to animal rights.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It is highly unlikely, given the present policy of the United States government, that surplus grain, even if it were available, would be shipped to the most needy people. How can we understand Lappé’s recommendation of a meatless diet as a “first step” toward changing the present situation? Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

So, while this fact does not need to concern us, if we are thinking about ethical principles, for example based on rational arguments leading to deontological ethics, that changes when we are talking about how to move society towards this ethical ideal. Tags: Activism Language. I assume Francione does not disagree.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

So if you don't like someone's style, see if you can look beyond or beneath that for the meaning (though sometimes it is admittedly difficult to separate the presentation from the substance). Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. And I understand that point.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

I think that greyhound racing and circuses are uses of animals that most people aren't thinking too much about, but if they did, and if they were presented with all of the stats and the behind-the-scenes information, they'd easily opt out, as they have nothing to lose. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

Some of the arguments I will present are not worked out in detail, and no detailed criticisms of any one provegetarian argument will be given. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The contrast would be, for example, “health vegetarianism.” In this paper, I will critically examine moral vegetarianism.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

I'm sure intelligence was in there somewhere, but the fact is that gorillas are presented as more important and more human than other animals, therefore they are worthy of saving. Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. I put this out there to you all because I'm not that person.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. So, if one wants to change the present practice, the best means is to stop eating meat. First, it is dubious that becoming a vegetarian would have much effect on present practice. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

To be sure, most biologists have not taken the thesis of the mental life of plants seriously, and in the light of our present evidence they are undoubtedly justified. At present, fortunately, there is an alternative to eating animal flesh, namely, eating a plant-based diet. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: Ditto.

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