Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

Here's a hint from the authors: In the end, it's not the grammarians and usage experts who decide what's right. The animal rights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animal rights" and "abolition." So who's right?

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2010

Check out " On Motherhood and Pizza " at Animal Rights & AntiOppression, by yours truly, and have a Happy Mother's Day! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

And she is very conscious of the ethics involved in the scientific processes she describes, even interviewing an ethics specialist on whether we should be burdening tiny birds with our scientific apparatus. She also effortlessly and consistently connects the science to its most important application, conservation. Geological Survey.

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Animal Person

JULY 25, 2010

I understand how someone who supports the Humane Society of the United States might think an event celebrating "humane" farms would be a good id, as HSUS isn't an animal rights organization. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film animal rights Tribe of Heart.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 9, 2010

There's an interesting discussion about the frustrations of shopping (" On the Perils of Purchasing ") over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression. Tags: Activism Ethics Gray Matters.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's] Tags: ethics animal rights medical research.

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Critter News

JUNE 12, 2009

"We want to take a building that has been a flashpoint for conflict on one moral issue and turn it into a place of dialogue on another one," said Bruce Friedrich, vice president for policy at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: PETA idiocy.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I don't want to comment right now except to say that there are no graphic images of suffering similar to those in, say, Earthlings. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. Karol Orzechowskiof Animal Voices (who interviewed yours truly back in July!) created the following film for your viewing, um. for your viewing.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights. Ernst believes we don't have a right to use sentient nonhumans and all of her posts (and those of Alex Melonas, who also posts at animalrights.change.org) are unequivocal about animal use. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This morning I posted " On California's Animal Abuse Registry Proposal " over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression and welcome any discussion about it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. What a fitting addition to discussions about speciesism!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2009

That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. There are some fair chase rules that any ethical hunter subscribes to.". Tags: idiocy. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon. 'You

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

However that doesn't make it right to use them. We have a legal right to use them, but that doesn't mean doing so is justifiable moral ly. Abortion is legal in this country, yet millions of people don't think it's right. None of this means that an action was wrong before it became legal, and then it became right.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights factory farms family farms. It's the one that matters most to beings who simply want to live their lives without betrayal, disrespect, enslavement and slaughter. And all of those are implicit in "farm." It doesn't matter what word you put before it.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2009

The German constitutional court has ruled that animal rights organisation PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) must end its campaign in which it draws a comparison between the Holocaust and industrial farming. Tags: PETA. PETA wants to run a campaign that compares factory farming to the Holocaust.

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Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

Or, open to change, he can take the message in the ensuing pages to heart, let it shift his mind and stir his soul, and thus begin, right now, his advance toward freedom for all species (7)." Do animals have rights? Do human beings have duties toward them regardless of whether they have rights? What kind do we have?

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Animal Person

APRIL 9, 2009

She knows going vegan is the right thing to do. She has said she wants to go vegan and knows it's the right thing to do, but she doesn't want to replace the problems she already has with new ones (she sort of has a handle on them now). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Help Cristy go vegan.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com).

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

They stopped after protests from animal rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: rats animal experimentation military pigs. Did you know this? car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.

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Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

And I admit to having very expensive (care-wise) dogs, but I imagine that the average dog must cost at least $1,000/year, right? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Two questions: 1. What do you think about discounted adoptions (or even giveaways)?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The garments and accessories are considered ethically sourced because no one was intentionally killed for them (although sources include "critters fallen victim to pest control," which sounds pretty intentional to me). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. Meanwhile, it's death they're wearing--not life.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 1, 2010

I'm doing my best in an imperfect world to respect the rights of other sentients, and I have heard vegans say that sanctuaries--and not pet ownership--will be the only way out of subjugation for cats and dogs. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. Do you agree with that?

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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. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Thanksgiving veganism. Yet the turtle. cause for concern about his welfare. Concern about his life. A hope for his life to continue. Even putting yourself in harm's way to help him. turkey. . .

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Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Henican writes: The truth of the matter, of course, is that most city kids will never have the chance to visit the wilds of Africa and Asia, assuming there are any wilds left in the decades to come.

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Animal Person

JUNE 5, 2009

Why are Leftists to shoulder the blame for the exploitation of animals simply because of their tardiness in arriving on the animal rights scene? I think that it's odd, for instance, that someone so ensconced in human rights does not notice the parallel when she grabs her grilled chicken caesar salad for lunch. Have a great day!

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression and I welcome comments (and will respond to the current ones shortly). I also saw two items of particular interest to the mission of Animal Rights and AntiOppression as well as Animal Person on the Interwebs: An introduction to "Deep Vegan Outreach" and an open letter from Dr. Ray Greek on the Feb.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g., We're not asking that any nonhumans have freedom of speech or voting rights. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

They're not necessarily questioning the ethics, but the efficacy. The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. Tags: animal experimentation medical research. This is an excellent article that appeared in the Boston Globe last week. We as a movement cannot compartamentalize.

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

You don't need a widget to do the right thing. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganism. Related articles by Zemanta Call for 20-year fishing ban in a third of oceans (guardian.co.uk).

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

There's a donate button on the homepage of AnimalEquality right at the bottom of the "Pig Farms" panel. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. We have calculated that we need about 3.600 euros to finish the investigation and face its costs. Thanks a lot.

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Animal Person

APRIL 20, 2009

Animal rights activists have considered sentient nonhumans as persons for quite some time. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. But on rare occasions, the animal-using world deigns to use the term when referring to an animal. And when he can make a politician look good.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Many bloggers who are pro-animal rights have either not used Google's AdSense or stopped because they discovered that, for instance, their anti-fur post was surrounded by ads for fur. I used to support the Animal Rights Zone until I discovered that my posts were often surrounded by fur ads. what they're supposed to be advocating for.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animal rights. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. No matter how they are treated, is it right to use them? Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Why all the quotation marks?

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

The Body Shop is causing some headaches for L'Oreal right now. I had read one of her books and had often pointed to her company as an example of a successful marriage between ethics and business. Tags: animal testing economics L'Oreal cosmetics. million euros (£223 million) in its last quarter.

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Animal Person

APRIL 22, 2009

I may have just gotten myself fired from Animal Rights Zone. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. There's got to be a better way to generate income. One where there is not the appearance, albeit not intentional, of a profoundly contradictory message. Here's my question for you. Is this a big deal for you?

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