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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. The testimonials all credit Birdsbesafe with reducing the number of birds killed by pet cats. Will the people who determinedly allow their cats to slaughter wild birds use it? I desperately hope so.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. to eliminate the most toxic of their ingredients and to repackage their products more safely. EPA began cancellation proceedings, and at the eleventh hour Liphatech and Spectrum Group pulled the most dangerous of their products from the shelves.

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On Small Victories

Animal Person

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. What Jentsch is doing is counter-productive. This year's carnage in the Antarctic was measurably smaller due to the interference of Sea Shepherd. That's one result.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. How far do we go in protecting them?