Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted the initial investigation[2] that exposed the apparent cruelty at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, an inconspicuous rural lab funded by large pharmaceutical companies to test insecticides and other chemicals used in companion animal products.

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Animal Person

APRIL 25, 2009

If they don't thrive on a diet without animals, then they should eat some animal products. I'm choosing to believe I willed it to happen because I just couldn't take buying all of those animal products. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. But that has changed, for some reason.

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Animal Person

JULY 4, 2009

Tags: Books Economics Ethics. And of course, the entire book is a commentary on what happens when humans decide that a plant, for whatever reason, is desirable (or perhaps, as Pollan suggests, we have been set up by the plants to desire them).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 8, 2009

And to my surprise, she picked them out of her Whole Foods brand canned food loaded with animal products. My only complaint so far is that Ami was backordered and I was told it would arrive in two weeks but it took a month, and concerns about availability are common when you research the product. What a relief!

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Animal Person

APRIL 22, 2009

Is it like buying those shoes that have no animal products but are made by a design house that uses animals regularly? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Is this a Gray Matter for you at all?

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Vegetarian, I assume, serves no flesh but does serve other, equally disturbing animal products. That they have items on the menus, or will make items, that contain no animal products? Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Which brings me to. So what does "vegan-friendly" really mean? I assume that's what it means.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

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. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."

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Animal Person

MAY 7, 2009

I don't know if she has ever claimed to know about the dangerous carcinogen found in grilled chicken, but to hawk such a product after the information and experts she has presented to her audience is the height of hypocrisy. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Oz not made the progress he appeared to be making with her?

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Our hope is that these talented participants will help pave the way for a more ethical fashion industry in the future.”

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Many vegans also believe that bringing people onto this planet isn't ethical, but I'm more of the school that says that if you have the urge to parent, having a biological child isn't in opposition to veganism.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 8, 2009

How can we, as individuals, help form a society that is both productive and resolves actual societal and environmental problems? Tags: Current Affairs Economics Ethics Gray Matters Language Religion. What have the sciences to contribute - if anything at all?"

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

And in order to deal with all of that and remain productive and even. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care. And I often am overcome with sadness.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

Face it, we'd like to avoid all products with animals in them but we can't even do that realistically, and to expect ourselves to also avoid non-animal products that have been processed with animal products is a bit much. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink. municipal water). Let me know.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

(The site says food production factories are included , but I doubt that means those involving the slaughter of animals.). How about an ethical adventure ? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Removing skin and bones from a chicken breast was "slimy and gushy and. fun" said one (female) child. One is male.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

Luckily, I think I've found a way to assuage my conscience about all of the suffering, environmental devastation and negative health impacts of eating animal products all day. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? I call it VBM: Vegan Between Meals.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Didn't she represent the dawn of a new age of profiting from the "production" and sale of animals? Tags: Economics Ethics. Perhaps I am mistaken or misreading, but didn't she really represent a turning point in the commodification of dogs and other sentient nonhumans used for research? The birth of a new business model?

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Animal Person

APRIL 17, 2009

Their ability to behave in a responsible way was being undermined by the marketing and of course the addictive nature of the product. Well, everybody comes down in a different place, but there certainly are similarities, including very heavy duty marketing of these products, especially to children.

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

What about Bittman's shoes and suits and household products, not to mention those of the woman across the street? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Before 6pm, he doesn't eat animals. Meanwhile the average omnivore across the street from me could call herself VBM, Vegan Between Meals. Is vegan a diet ?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The main difference is that Foer doesn't eat meat (though he does, as it turns out, eat some animal products) and he challenges the cultural assumptions that tell us that some animals are for petting and some are for eating. Tags: Books Ethics. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). What Jentsch is doing is counter-productive. Guess what the answer is?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Some people cut back on animal products, some eliminate one at a time, some ditch it all upon watching Earthlings (and I'd love to know if they watched it in one sitting, but no one has volunteered that information) or reading Eating Animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. You can probably guess why.

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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. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here are some tidbits: Keith believes humans need to embrace the consumption of animal products, including beef, or else face severe and chronic health problems. Tags: Activism Books Ethics. Here' s a review by vegetarian Mark Hand, who still eschewed "meat" even after reading the book.

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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. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? makes some fantastic points that are worth repeating and deconstructing.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

The action of exploiting or turning to account; productive working or profitable management (of mines, cattle, etc.). Tags: Ethics Language. It makes sense, then, that around the same time (who knows about the oral history between the lines and what the exact dates were in spoken English), exploitation shows up, and it means.

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Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

Websites can be seeds if they don't promote animal products while saying animals aren't ours to use; I find that confusing. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. And when you're checking out at the health food store with your cans and bag of vegan dog food, how could that not be a seedy opportunity?

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

Vegans are people who don't eat any animal products, and that includes foods that have been processed with sugar that is made with bone char. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. S: There's only one thing on our menu that's vegan. It's the Buddhist in me, I guess.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

I understand the need for critique and productive criticism within a movement. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing. I'm referring to people who want to bully or attack and not have to deal with the consequences.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

To rest easy, those who buy or sell products from nonhuman bodies must forget that each victim suffered personal loss of freedom, well-being, and life" (140). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Like any other unnecessary killing of innocent beings, it still wouldn't be humane" (137). Chance is so close!

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

You can't pull the god card to claim superiority over the rest of us so you demonize the consumption of animal products. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. Spencer R writes: Vegans sound exactly like religious fundamentalists. It's an absurd point of view that really has no logical backing whatsoever.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2010

For me, the problem was that the product was too weak. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics canine diabetes humulin vetsulin. Two tablespoons (rubbed on her gums) does the job best, I've learned. It gets her to 60, when she can have a small meal and catch up to her regular curve. Vetsulin had a quality/consistency problem.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2010

I used to take every opportunity that crossed my path to explain--at length--the inaccuracy, inconsistency and lack of logic in such accusations, but I grew tired of doing that and didn't see how it could be productive. Tags: Activism Ethics Gray Matters Language. Pick your battles. I want people to see my family as "normal."

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

The reasonable rates really do not adequately reflect both the level of comfort and the personalized service ethic. Frank runs very informative and productive day-trips from the lodge. But this does not mean that we as birders have to sacrifice comfort for a fatter wallet! Paradise in Portugal is a perfect example of this.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism. This was my reality check for today: someone who defends animal agriculture as a tradition (i.e., we did it yesterday so we should do it today) and because there's profit in it.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

The last example suggests the difficulty of making a clear distinction between an animal part and an animal product. If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal? What Is an Animal Part? KBJ: Agreed.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The general premises about natural reactions do not yield ethical conclusions. It should be noted that people might have strong negative gut reactions to large-scale food preparation having nothing to do with meat or animal products. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Furthermore, the argument cuts too deep.

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