Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

It seems like the answer to most questions/responses to most issues is one of these: Speciesism. Yes, it is hypocritical (speciesism), but who said that we either protect humans or animals? It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. Where do people get that idea?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. For all of us.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper. Part IV: Brown Dogs and Red Herrings.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on. It would be argued that to suppose that a bird’s life is less valuable than a human life is a form of speciesism, a doctrine of prejudice analogous to racism and sexism.

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