Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

Why change for welfare purposes if there is no clear economic benefit? Mulesing, in which woolgrowers surgically remove parts of merino lambs' rears to prevent potentially fatal flystrike, has sparked demonstrations and litigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Tags: australia sheep mulesing.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research.

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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

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. And not all organizations that advocate for animals claim to have a "genuine environmentalist ethic," and the ones that do must subscribe to his ethic or they're not genuine? than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

cause for concern about his welfare. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Thanksgiving veganism. And not just dead, mind you, but cause for celebration. Yet the turtle. 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

MAY 28, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter? macworld.com). Is The Goode Family Good for the Environment? takepart.com).

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Animal Person

JUNE 17, 2009

By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. Now, I'm the first one to say that when I began blogging I thought the end of the use of animals would never come, so in the meantime, welfare reforms could at least be supported.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 8, 2009

But can we really imagine an economic system that delivers prosperity and welfare, or is competition an unavoidable consequence of the human race? Tags: Current Affairs Economics Ethics Gray Matters Language Religion.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

welfare") is the best that any of us can ever hope for, and of course what is a change in the way I kill you other than a change in the method by which you die. Frankly, we don't know whether or not welfare reform will lead to the abolition of the use of sentient nonhumans. Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e.,

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Her death on an operating table in the Bronx would help animal welfare advocates break a long-standing stalemate in Congress and push through the most significant animal-protection bill in American history. Tags: Economics Ethics. Was what followed animal protection or pet protection, as pets are the animals who really matter?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. For all of us.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This is the message of animal welfare--there is nothing inherently unjust about bringing animals into this world for your own use and/or profit. Tags: Books Ethics. Foer is saying that he made the decision to not eat "meat" for the various reasons he outlines, but you might make a different decision and that's okay.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Why all the quotation marks? Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animal rights. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. Is it fair? Is it just

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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). And it's a very dispassionate discussion, but that's what makes it sickening.

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Animal Person

MAY 25, 2010

We don't know whether further generations of welfare reforms might lead to us not using animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Also, as the mutual fund industry disclaimer says, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." After all, these are my lessons. And they'll conclude tomorrow.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Though the author does appear to care about the welfare of land animals a bit and takes for granted that factory farming is an odious practice, he doesn't seem to care about animals who do not dwell on land. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics James E. Which begs the question: What about sea animals?

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Here's an interesting combination of great sentiment and horrible sentiment that involves two responses from the above list: "Online critics said it was hypocritical to protect only dogs and cats, and that the government should focus on human welfare before protecting animals." Where do people get that idea? What do you think?

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

But the HSUS is by no means an animal-rights organization; it is an animal welfare organization. At least it sounds like it's interested in the welfare of all animals in the rodeo, while the VHS statement is ambiguous at best, and contradictory at worst. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

He also notes that evidence that welfarism is misguided is that even the sealers are for it. 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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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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. But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

And people who say they want us to stop using animals, yet whose tactics appear to be in the service of the welfare of animals, can be called "new welfarists." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing. they already agree with you.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

That leaves us with animal welfare, which I do think we are genuinely interested in, mostly because of the myriad videos, documentaries, books and websites that have made it tough to avoid over the past few years. That's respect. Photo from Flickr user gunp0wder.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

Right now, for instance, animal rights activists include those individuals who believe that welfare reforms might some day lead to the abolition of animal use, and that they should campaign for such reforms even if they provide the smallest improvements in comfort. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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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 Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language. Translation?

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Here's where the train of thinking falls short of the station: "Because of his plant’s small size (it employs 15 laborers), his unwavering conviction that 'the animal needs to be respected,' and his concern for his workers’ welfare, Eggleston’s operation is an expensive and relatively inefficient one." It involves not killing them.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2007

In terms of welfare (i.e., Some, such as my niece's Tag, are utterly spoiled. What we should be concerned with is not the gap between "rich" dogs and "poor" dogs, but the absolute welfare level of dogs. What's important is welfare. overall well-being), there is great inequality among dogs. I don't see why we should.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

KBJ: There are two types of rights: autonomy rights, which protect autonomy, and welfare rights, which protect interests. But this says nothing about whether animals have welfare rights. This interest can serve as the basis of a welfare right. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Only moral agents have autonomy rights.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Lactovo and vegan moral vegetarianism can be subdivided into what might be called new and old or traditional moral vegetarianism.

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