Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Tags: Ethics Language. Is evil something you do but not who you are? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway? Is evil an excuse we make for people?

Vivisection 100

Vivisection Vegan Ethics Cruelty 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Tags: Books Ethics Language. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal.

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here are some highlights: Mantle: "How do you respond to: Yeah, you may find something that benefits humans, but it's not worth it and it's not ethically right?" Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Animal Liberation Front animal rights David Jentsch Jerry Vlasak UCLA vivisection. Guess what the answer is?

Animal Liberation Front 100

Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Is it possible that videos of open rescue or undercover videos taken of vivisection could be somehow lumped in with snuff and other vile videos and considered unacceptable (and don't think that wouldn't be intentional), therefore taking an important tool away from activists? What do you think?

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

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. Or mute babies?

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100