10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. Studies have also found that: Pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without pets. Staying connected.
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Animals suffer when killed. No pearly phrases can make that any better.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. How does the health of a farmer’s family and community figure in when they are making the decision to continue industrialized production methods? That sounds like a win-win to us.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Paul’s family noticed that whenever he was about to have an attack, Tinker would get agitated. Is this moral?
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. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week. And for what?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. I come from a family where the worse the situation, the faster and more furiously the wisecracks fly, so I suppose I’m hardwired to look for humor. The book is darkly funny. I just can’t take it.
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