Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) announced today it has launched a one-year national animal research education campaign. Since 2004, public support for humane animal research to advance human and animal health has fallen 10 points. Once again, they're just using their most effective weapon.guilt.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

It was not a whim or an attempt to get attention, as the sensationalist press will say; instead this is a response to the domination, objectification and commodification of millions of animals (mink, chinchilla, fox, raccoons, etc.) Max Mara has long been the target of anti-fur activists in Europe and around the world.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The status of animals in our legal system is in flux and attorneys are discovering creative and interesting ways to use legal arguments in the face of increasingly complex scenarios. Our clients are legally impacted by a vast array of human/animal interactions.

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Critter News

JUNE 21, 2009

From the Humane Society's press release. Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 17, 2008

No doubt going after the coveted football loving animal abuser fan base. Hannah Tostensen, director of the Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia, and Lisa Norton, president of Citizens for Humane Animal Treatment in Brunswick, complained to Bealls' corporate office in Bradenton, Fla.,

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals? Have they not ever observed nonhuman animals? We're all animals, aren't we? We're sentient. Or "even" obnoxious?

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Mars Petcare and Human-Animal Interaction. For decades, Mars Petcare – through its world-renowned WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition – has led the way in research in Human-Animal Interaction (HAI), the scientific field that studies the bond between humans and companion animals.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2009

By the way, it's not only the name, but the web site is also designed to be deceiving with pictures of cute animals and strong human/animal relationships. NAIA Trust is a 501 (c) (4) so contributions to it are not tax deductible. Clever bastards.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised.

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Creature Talk

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

It is a great example of how loving and selfless non-human animals can be. The whole idea that so many people hold that says somehow humans have a monopoly on emotions kind of gets tossed out the window when you see something like this. This video just melts my heart. We could all learn a little something from this Hero Dog!

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

It's difficult for me to understand how the act of thanking a god, who likely doesn't even exist, would matter to the nonhuman animal who is killed for the crime of being a nuisance to a human animal. Whether or not someone appreciates the taste of my flesh after they have killed me doesn't matter to me.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Finally, until we as a society develop a collective objection to killing human animals who have committed atrocities, we are unlikely to develop such an objection to killing nonhuman animals. But that doesn't mean we should work toward abolishing the death penalty first, and then move to the case of animals.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Furthermore, there's the notion that though you're not for violence, you recognize that the most significant vehicle for the liberation of nonhuman animals, just like the liberation of human animals, probably isn't going to be a petition. Or vegan pumpkin pie.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life. They will still lack the freedom to engage in natural behaviors like foraging and nesting. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil. At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Achieving humane treatment of animals is inconceivable with our big, popular universities teaching the opposite! Thank you for making it possible to represent the animals' -- including the human animal's -- interests! David Cantor Executive Director Responsible Policies for Animals, Inc.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

After all, many activists don't support the use of the same tactics they'd approve of to liberate human animals to liberate nonhuman animals. There's no good reason to lack confidence that animals who possess a brain are sentient (134). I'm not saying it's not speciesist, but that I understand it.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

Like the Rockies, though, this is a harsh beauty, not an ideal climate for the human animal by any means. The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.)

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

Now, mind you there are people who are actually mentally ill in the sense they 'can't get it up' without thinking of their mate as a fantasized non-human animal, I should mention this also includes mythological animals. Law enforcement has better tasks than to fry someone for their sexual preference or activity.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

There was no meaningful discussion about our inefficient use of resources (grain and water) in the feeding of animals to kill to feed people. With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Bekoff and Pierce (a philosopher) are the perfect combination to write this book because whenever you're presenting the similarities of nonhuman animals to human animals, a philosophical conundrum is created for humans, who like to think that we are worlds different, and above nonhumans.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

As an Animal Communicator, Cherie has made it her mission to give all animals a voice, deepen the human animal relationship and help raise the compassion level for all living things. Cherie can be reached through her website [link]. You may also contact her directly at cherie@cheriev.com or 818.577.5247.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, where she has taught for the past 18 years.

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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. Are the lives of nonhuman animals less important, to them, than your life is to you? I can't imagine what it is.

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Creature Talk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

About 3000 race horses are retired each year, and right now only about 1/3 of those animals find such homes. As for our human animal counterparts, one of the stories that really got my attention this summer was about the pervasiveness and brutality of rape in Congo.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? I believe it does help.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

I propose that the moral significance of the suffering, mutilation, and death of non-human animals rests on the following, which may be called the overflow principle: Act towards that which, while not itself a person, is closely associated with personhood in a way coherent with an attitude of respect for persons.

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Animal Person

JULY 6, 2010

Human animals and nonhuman animals share many characteristics, but one trumps the rest: the capacity to feel pleasure and pain, boredom and frustration. There are so many decisions to be made and we're excited to raise our little girl with intention. She can always choose justice and respect.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 9, 2009

Because when you compare two species, or rather a nonhuman animal species to the human animal, the humans almost always come out on top. The point is to show how much another species is like us, but of course never as good as we are, at whatever the measurement is.

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Creature Talk

APRIL 7, 2009

What immediately hit me after getting so emotional about this is how nature is kind in comparison to the horrible cruelties humans impose on non-human animals, especially “food&# animals. Yes, I cried at the cruelty of nature. He knew the love of his mother, got to swim, play, and run around.

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