Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

One of the benefits that human rights movements have is that they are articulating for themselves. Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. This is because the animals cannot use human language to speak for themselves and contradict either side. (I The Humane Society?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

I am the Interim Executive Director of two organizations that help former foster youth (the same orgs I chaired for a couple of years, but resigned from the boards to take this position), and it's only for a couple of months and as I always say, I can do just about anything for a couple of months. It's comical. It's absurd.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I want to talk about why we shouldn't be using animals and that it's infinitely easier to be a vegan than it was 20 years ago. With more than 2 million members across the globe, PETA is the largest animal advocacy group and comparable in size to the human rights organization, Amnesty International.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." I think he's the anti-human person full of self hatred, and this is a case of projection. And one of that handful is the environment.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My original blogroll included people/organizations that informed my journey and it brought me much criticism and labeled me a "new welfarist" and brought me all kinds of grief. Lesson #20 We still don't know what will make a critical mass of people go vegan. I had "Places I Go/People I Know" for a while, which was accurate.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2009

As you know, Cheri and Jim are in the early stages of setting up their sanctuary, after a long journey of conscience that began with them closing their dairy goat operation, then transitioning to a vegan way of life, and eventually, creating a loving, lifelong home for farmed animals in need. Mary (Animal Person).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

They don't see veganism as related to their fight against dog racing, at first (or second. ). I appreciate this (the penultimate paragraph): The alliances needed for a politics of the 21st century – the most crucial century in the history of humanity — will not be easy to form.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

KBJ: Permit me a comment on the organization of Martin’s essay (for the benefit of my students). Two varieties of moral vegetarianism can be distinguished: lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. Clearly in our second hypothetical situation, it would be said, it would not be right to kill a human being for food.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning. The ability to feel pain is not an obviously plausible way of morally distinguishing microorganisms from other organisms. Why should microorganisms be sacrificed rather than humans?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. milk production.

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