Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? Tags: advocacy. In the author's words.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Another example of how animals (even goldfish!) A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. Tags: animal abuse domestic violence. I'm posting the whole article because it's so short. become victims of domestic violence.

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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). Guess what the answer is? No surprise there. Direct action is such a conundrum.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The argument from brutalization, however, does not appear to postulate a logical connection between vegetarianism and inhumanity but rather a psychological one. Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. We’ve all seen guilty dogs slinking away with lowered tails, for example. Tags: guest post animal behavior dogs. “They could be the ultimate charlatans,&# says Hauser.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For example, protesting the government’s food policies by wearing buttons, putting ads in the New York Times , or writing one’s congressman would seem to have greater educational value than not eating meat (question 2). Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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