Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

hours on I-95 (we here in South Florida are known for our very limited public transportation options--boy do I miss NYC). Why is it always open season on children as long as you're teaching them about mainstream beliefs, regardless of how ethically contradictory they may be? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

To the Editor: The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases is generated by livestock production, more than by transportation. Yet Al Gore does not even mention the need for Americans to reduce meat consumption as we attempt to rescue ourselves from the climate crisis.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

Snakes may die during the capture and transport process, or they may be housed inhumanely in a small aquarium they can barely fit into. There is a list of human victims of captive snakes, including a 2-year-old girl who was strangled in her crib by a pet Burmese python who had escaped from its enclosure.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2008

More barbarous, or less barbarous, such slaughtering may undoubtedly be, according to the methods employed, but the "humane" slaughtering, so much bepraised of the sophist, is an impossibility in fact and a contradiction in terms. Henry S.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

The transport and subsequent slaughter of these animals is brutal. The facts are these: ¶Most horses that end up slaughtered are bought by buyers acting on behalf of slaughterhouses. Many of these horses have been stolen or were surrendered to buyers who promised to care for them but who sell them to slaughter instead.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For example, Oprah (or Kristof) said: "At the peak of the transatlantic slave trade, 80,000 slaves were transported from Africa to the new world. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics animal rights Half the Sky human trafficking Nicholas Kristoff Oprah Sheryl WuDunn The Girl Effect The Nike Foundation veganism.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Livestock accounts for at least 21 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions globally -- more than all forms of transportation combined. Livestock production consumes 70 percent of the water in the American West -- water so heavily subsidized that if irrigation supports were removed, ground beef would cost $35 a pound.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2023

Visiting Albert Park in winter recently, all wrapped up in layers of clothing – ethically sourced down is good! It remains a good location for observing birds close to the city and easily accessible by public transport. – we encountered a different variety of birds.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Outside he went, transported in plastic, back to his home in the wilds of suburban West Palm Beach. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. I caught her on the way back toward Bob, and I confess, tossed her into the bathroom, all while keeping an eye on Bob.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2008

Global warming is an animal ethics issue. Take public transportation when possible. As the planet warms, fragile habitats that countless animal species depend on for survival will be destroyed. We have already witnessed radical changes in the polar icecap, changes that threaten numerous arctic species.

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