Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
From the better late then never category, the ALDF is having a National Justice for Animals Week to raise awareness about animal abuse. Animal victims of abuse cannot speak for themselves—so concerned citizens and our legal system must speak up for them,” says ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
” The Public Trust Doctrine (PTD) is the principle that certain resources are preserved for public use, and that the government is required to maintain them for the public’s reasonable use. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 24, 2011
Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) have mobilized to Japan to conduct an assessment and assist with animal rescue efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. This will allow IFAW and NARSC colleagues to identify long-term animal relief projects in Japan.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. But the disregard for animals that leads to teams using a live owl as a mascot…and having so little control over it that it got onto the field during play?
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart.
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Perhaps Latimer should read some of Responsible Policies for Animals ' literature (like Factsheet #4 , about deer kills and ecosystems).
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir., Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.
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