4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Expert cites scientifically-proven therapeutic, physical and emotional health benefits of loving and caring for a pet. Pet ownership runs far deeper than simply caring for a possession. Yes, the sheer responsibility of caring for a pet has notable benefits in and of itself. Caring for a pet may even help you live longer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2015
I look at the photo, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. I look at these birds, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? There is no moral ambiguity here.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. Recently I started working with Dunrovin Ranch, a local guest ranch, on their web project Days at Dunrovin.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Thousands of studies have demonstrated that human thinking about nearly everything is surprisingly irrational” (65). . Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.”
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75).
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. Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 20, 2008
Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. Are pets, for example, well-treated, like children, for the sake of themselves, or, like mechanical appliances, because of the sort of services they provide their owners?
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