Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
The conversations with family and friends have already begun about "Turkey Day." I've had family members ask me to refrain from "proselytizing" to not "spoil the day" for everyone and to "give it a rest" and let everyone eat in peace. I haven't had a Thanksgiving with family members in years. Not humans, not animals."
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. My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects. Perhaps the best feature of the film is the various voices telling a similar story.
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Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? What about being torn from your family? This is where I'm confused. What about boredom and frustration?
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights chicken slaughter language Sara Lipka The Atlantic veganism. There are few animal rights stories in the news. That's respect. Photo from Flickr user gunp0wder.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Thanksgiving 2010 will be Baby Sky's first, and our opportunity to introduce her to the notion that our family doesn't eat animals (not to mention that other historical story we'll be correcting). Justice for beings who look very different from us but who, like us, experience pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
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