Critter News

OCTOBER 23, 2008

employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants. On Monday, Federal Court Judge Emmet Sullivan will begin hearing testimony in the case. The anticipated three-week, non-jury trial takes place in U.S.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I believe Palin will happily support Cheney's inhumane policies on torture and attacking other countries. Tags: us election Palin. But, for the purposes of this blog, 1) his attention never completely turned to wildlife and the environment and 2) he is a smart man that knew how to play his cards.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Given the abundant literature on conflict of interest in the academy, and given that knowledge is routinely used to promote special interests and popular interests over the public interest, maybe we should monitor our educational institutions at least as much as governmental ones. 215-886-RPA1.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

In the weaker form of the argument it is maintained only that eating meat tends to make people less sensitive to people’s inhumane treatment of other people and more willing to accept people’s brutality and inhumanity to other people. People who do not eat meat tend to be less cruel and inhumane to persons than people who do eat meat.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

For some people, it is inhumane to eat meat in any situation, no matter how well the animal is treated prior to and during slaughter. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. In my opinion, the crux of the question touches on what is “humane.” They were simply factors of production at that time too.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

It's off to a promising start and includes a promising end: The HSUS opposes rodeos as they are commonly organized, since they typically cause torment and stress to animals; expose them to pain, injury, or even death; and encourage an insensitivity to and acceptance of the inhumane treatment of animals in the name of sport.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Below is a press release about the mailing.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It can be argued instead that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent or approval to the present situation, that the only way to be true to one’s moral conviction that the present treatment of animals is inhumane is not to eat meat. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Certainly, not eating meat could have this protest function.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Paragraph #4 starts with: "Undeniably, neither I nor anyone I know advocates or even tolerates the inhumane treatment of farm animals." The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system.

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