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Humane Society University to Offer Courses in Fall 2009

Critter News

From the Humane Society's press release. The HSUS is the first animal welfare organization to receive such authority and distinction. nonprofit organizations that seek to protect, provide services to or advocate for animals, and to advance scholarship in the field.

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Tom Regan on Human Chauvinism

Animal Ethics

This is human chauvinism. The anthropomorphic side reads: "It is anthropomorphic to attribute characteristics to nonhumans that belong only to humans." The human chauvinism side reads: "It is chauvinistic not to attribute characteristics to those nonhumans who have them and to persist in the conceit that only humans do."

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

An animal’s species is irrelevant to his or her entitlement to liberty rights; any who possesses practical autonomy has what is sufficient for basic rights as a matter of liberty. Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap. 7 in The State of the Animals II , ed. Salem and Andrew N.

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Tom Regan on Wild Animals

Animal Ethics

Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g., Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g., Too little is not enough. (

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Tom Regan on the Use of Animals in Science

Animal Ethics

There are also some things we cannot learn by using humans, if we respect their rights. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 388 [first edition published in 1983]) The rights view merely requires moral consistency in this regard. (

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Below is a press release about the mailing. David Cantor Executive Director Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! It was sent to about 1,200 environmental journalists this afternoon.

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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

Because animals are sentient (i.e., can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement.