Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Sounds interesting. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own?

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2009

Unwanted farm dogs are another source. The selling of dogs from the pound for this purpose is morally wrong. Animals for research purposes are coming from municipal shelters, breeders and the greyhound trade. From the Herald Sun. In 2007, 394 dogs died during procedures for canine and human research.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11). On page 172, when Herzog writes, “I am conflicted over many moral issues involving animals,” I respond, “No kidding!”

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., But utilitarianism is not the theory its initial reception by the animal rights movement may have suggested.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Perhaps she would argue that there is no double standard, i.e., that there is a morally relevant difference between human animals and nonhuman animals that justifies the difference in treatment. Notice that we (including, I assume, the author) would never allow such treatment of a human being. I can't imagine what it is.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

Walk to a small abandoned farm and keep on along the track, crossing a small canal via a small bridge (don’t worry about the gate) just after the farm. This is prohibited under German nature conservation laws and a moral no-go. Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is a moral principle, and states that 'the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being'. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

.: One message is that there's nothing wrong with eating animals, and in fact it's fantastic and thrilling and a win-win-win (people-planet-profits) when you eat animals that were "produced" by Polyface Farms. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

An enormous volume of material has already appeared on the conditions under which animals live and die on factory farms, and more is almost certainly on the way. What the vegetarian wants, surely, is that we should stop eating meat even if our liking for it exceeds our revulsion at the suffering endured on factory farms.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. (I believe they can speak, but in their own language that we can understand if we only listen.) There is a group for every cause.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2008

My view, then, is not that which it has often been taken to be in discussion and which Singer, Regan, Clark, and others blast in their work; I am not suggesting that, because they lack language, animals can be factory farmed without suffering. Animals are moral patients, but not moral agents.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. Arguments like "Let Them Eat Dog" caricatures the antifactory farm position, which is a shame because it's an important argument to hear.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 5, 2007

To the Editor: “ A Factory Farm Near You ” (editorial, July 31) does not mention any issue of the morality of factory farming—treating living beings as factory products. Cruelty to animals on such a scale should be the centerpiece of any discussion on raising animals for food.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 4, 2006

It is designed to distinguish between two types of farming. Note that this debate is independent of the debate about the moral permissibility of eating fish. If organically raised fish suffer less than nonorganically raised fish, it is an accident, morally speaking.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. Hurst hammers three times).

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2007

It might be argued that any decrease in suffering for farmed animals is good, morally speaking. Someone might argue that there is no incompatibility between (1) working to decrease animal suffering and (2) working toward the abolition of factory farming. What do you think of this ?

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Modern livestock farming on a grand scale also wastes a colossal amount of feed grains on animals which, in times past, would simply have fed off the land. There is no doubt a good deal of truth in this last point as well, and we are here presented with a serious moral problem concerning the world food supply. One can only agree.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ A Farm Boy Reflects ” (column, July 31): Hats off to Nicholas D. While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

I have always felt a sense of connection to animals since as far back as I can remember, and the current manner in which they are treated in factory farms disturbs me. Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Parker uses the term "anti-modern farming activists," which is new to me. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! I prefer "anti-unnecessary slaughter of sentient nonhumans" and it has nothing to do with perceived modernity.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 21, 2007

If we’re going to raise farm animals and then kill them to eat them, we should say so. They do so because it’s the moral and ethical thing to do, and it’s in their best economic interest. Catherine di Lorenzo Woodbine, Ga.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 15, 2007

Once I put two and two together and realized where my food came from and the moral inconsistency of it all there was no turning back. My temptation when dealing with others was to simply say, "hey look this is what modern factory farming is all about," and voila people would make the change.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

There is a difficulty about drawing from all this a moral for ourselves. But then we can say this because we can say that all those are bad moralities, whereas we cannot look at our own moralities and declare them bad. This sympathy can be a basis for revising one's moral principles so as to take animals into account.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167).

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

I’ll leave the question of infant care to the physicians, but I know firsthand that an adult vegan can enjoy robust physical health without contributing to the cruel suffering of animals on today’s factory farms. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Lakeside School catfish farm. Lakeside School catfish farm. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. There's not enough evidence for an accusation of moral relativism, but for me the message is a mixed one. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2019

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. La Unión–Casa de Cope. 26 Feb 2019.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2019

Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. 10 Jan 2019. 10 Jan 2019.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2019

Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. Santa Barbara Pipasa coffee farms. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. enta fish farm. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. 26 Feb 2019.

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