Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

According to the article, "Zoochosis is a term used by animal rights activists in reference to the degrading effect of zoos on animals that have been kept in captivity over a long period of time. an animal can be psychologically traumatized, why in the world do we still wonder if it has any intelligence?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

When you refer to your own beliefs with "nonviolence" you rightfully invite questions about what nonviolence means and it behooves you to work that all out beforehand. I think most would agree with that one, although there is the question of psychological harm, and activists are all over the map with that. Is it fair? Is it just ?

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Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

As Best writes, "Psychological and ethical change is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of the large-scale social transformations needed for creating viable democratic and ecological cultures." Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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