Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. 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). Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies.

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. (You By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

The reason we need to save the gorillas and their habitats (it's a book on gorilla "conservation") is--and this is from memory so there could be more--that gorillas have thumbs, just like humans do. We need language that doesn't support a divide between "pet" animals and everyone else. We do that with cats and dogs already, right?

Gorillas 100

Gorillas Pets Vegan Speciesism 100