Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

Plus, animals are messy, require feeding and constant care, draw protests, and, yes, can be a bit smelly. Even if you become 100 percent vegan, how much of the drugs you take, the makeup you wear and the cleaning products you use have been tested on an animal? This is an important issue.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. But Foot doesn't buy it and asks--again-- Yet over the long history of animal rights activism in Canada, it's hard to find evidence that the larger aims of such protests are ever achieved. makes some fantastic points that are worth repeating and deconstructing.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 6, 2009

As I have suggested above, vegetarianism may have a protest or symbolic function. It might be suggested that although becoming a vegetarian as a protest against animal suffering or a way of committing oneself to helping the hungry people of the world is not a moral duty, it is still a moral act; it is a supererogatory act.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

What Jentsch is doing is counter-productive. Peaceful protests were ignored, as well. Home protests were ignored also. Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans." Vlasak's main points: The money that Jentsch is wasting doing this should go to treatment programs.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

However, it wasn't honest of me to promote such products because my goal, after all, is for us to not use animals. So, unlike the case of Jonathan Safran Foer, who does not object to the eating of animals "in general," it was disingenuous of me to promote an animal product. I changed my mind about my approach back then.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Various lobby groups, world food organizations, and consumer and environmentalist groups putting pressure on meat producers to utilize these waste products to feed animals might be a much more effective way of conserving grain than vegetarianism. Indeed, one might feel that there was an obligation to eat meat.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

milk production. More important, it might be a much more efficient means of changing practice to stage protests at meat-packing companies, put pressure on congressmen, and work through existing humane organizations. Certainly, not eating meat could have this protest function. causing a decline in U.S.

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