Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Kansas University Medical Center was nailed by USDA inspectors for violations including improper treatment for sick animals, aging facilities and failing to provide appropriate enrichment opportunities for animals who appear to be under psychological stress. Tags: animal research.

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Kansas Welfare Psychology Animal Research 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 6, 2009

Dog Whisperer: Inside Puppy Mills exposes inhumane conditions at these factory-like breeding operations, as Cesar joins an undercover mission with the animal welfare organization Last Chance for Animals (LCA). They do the physical rescue, I do the psychological rescue. Tags: tv. Friday, May 8 at 9PM ET/PT.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. 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. First there's "What constitutes psychological harm?" Tags: Activism Ethics Language. Is it fair?

Compassion 100

Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Then comes the introduction to Vlasak wanting to harm individuals who harm animals.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 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?

Psychology 100

Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. But it is not implausible to suppose that, for many people, going without meat will have less psychological meaning and consequently strengthen their resolve less than wearing buttons and signing petitions. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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