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Animal Person

It's amazing to observe as someone learns about what we humans have done to this planet in such a short period of time, and how dire the situation really is. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Film Environmentalism Factory Farm Glenn Close Home Veganism Winged Migration. But that's me.

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Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Notice that we (including, I assume, the author) would never allow such treatment of a human being. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

Tourism money is vital to the survival of the world’s Mountain Gorillas, but at the same time that tourism has to be carefully managed to not harm them either, either by disturbance or through human carried diseases. Moreover, philosophically, I have a massive problem with the idea that we shouldn’t extract resources from nature.

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Are We Really a Movement?

Critter News

One of the benefits that human rights movements have is that they are articulating for themselves. Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. This is because the animals cannot use human language to speak for themselves and contradict either side. (I The Humane Society?

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

Critter News

This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure."

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Crates

Animal Ethics

Indeed, doesn't it entrench the idea that they are resources for human use? Imagine arguing not that human chattel slavery ought to be abolished, but that it ought to be reformed so as to inflict less suffering on the slaves. But doesn't decreasing animal suffering make abolition less likely?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice. We know that animals suffer as well.