Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression and I welcome comments (and will respond to the current ones shortly). 2) If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably more aware of the goings-on around the panel discussion that will involve Dr. Ray Greek and members of the Pro-Test community at UCLA.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. In this way people may be encouraged to believe that, for example, the trapping of plentiful animals raises no serious moral question, whereas the trapping of rare animals does. This is not what the rights view implies.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions. Those animals who are raised intensively, then, let us assume, do not know what they're missing. That individuals can be harmed without knowing it has important implications for the proper assessment of the treatment of animals.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. He came for the hawks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

You can read more about the study at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , among others. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”

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