Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
These favor common law personhood, as a matter of liberty, at least for those nonhuman animals, such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, dolphins, and whales, who possess such highly advanced cognitive abilities as consciousness, perhaps even self-consciousness; a sense of self; and the abilities to desire and act intentionally.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 17, 2008
According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Navy to do so?
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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., as is the humane ethic.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. What a horror!
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. Taking risks with any of these removals of “alien” species renders the whole operation pointless…it only takes two (2) to start the cycle all over again. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2013
It is driven by love for animals, but relies on their deaths to exist. It is responsible for some of the happiest moments of my childhood, the trips to the Buffalo Museum of Science that kindled my passion for nature; and yet, the quest for specimens ushered some of my favorite species of birds out of the world.
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