Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. It's an adult male macaque suffering from zoochosis. According to the article, "Zoochosis is a term used by animal rights activists in reference to the degrading effect of zoos on animals that have been kept in captivity over a long period of time.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

One of the more distressing aspects of the animal liberation movement is the failure of almost all its exponents to draw a sharp distinction between the very different plights (and rights) of wild and domestic animals. African cheetas [sic] in American and European zoos are captive, not indentured, beings.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. In contrast, abstract-rational entities, like personhood or rights, are not.

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