Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

A vegetarian who is regularly critical of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including aerial hunting, which Palin supports. No amount of advocacy for environmental or animal welfare issues advocacy can make up for his support of Palin/McCain.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

From the vegan equals vegetarian discussion, to the nonviolence does or doesn't include property damage, to certain abolitionists deciding that they are in fact the only real abolitionists, it has gotten comical. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. So if animal husbandry is to be prohibited, it should be on animal-welfare grounds, not environmental grounds. Still others will do so because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that vegetarianism (or demi-vegetarianism) is good for human beings.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

In my opinion, and I am a vegetarian, the second definition of humane is the MINIMAL that we should expect. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. The animal is well-treated during its life in terms of having space to roam, living free of fear and abuse, and being well-fed in clean conditions.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 14, 2008

The question of whether animals possess rights is once again topical, largely as a result of the recent surge of interest in animal welfare and in the moral pros and cons of eating animals and using them in scientific research. Arguments to show that animals do have rights, therefore, are at a premium. (

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." "The Humane Society of the United States is the big bully on this strange playground. I wish their mission was to end animal agriculture.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Most informative for a discussion about vegan advocacy is the section about the animal rights movement (and unfortunately he alternately calls it “animal protection” and also refers to welfare, perhaps because of the Humane Research Council’s study that people prefer the word “protection”). But I’m merely making his point.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

The tiresome Hitler was a well-known vegetarian comment is included in this segment, but I found it irksome long before that. But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

But this question of Butchery is not merely one of kindness or unkindness to animals, for by the very facts of the case it is a human question of no slight importance, affecting as it does the social and moral welfare of those more immediately concerned in it.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Professor Jenni’s Earth Day Lecture is co-sponsored by NIU’s Department of Philosophy and NIU’s Vegetarian Education Group [VEG]. More information about VEG can be found here.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof’s column broke my heart.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

Keith: As a historian or even an anthropologist, one could make the argument that being a vegetarian limits one's ability to understand other cultures. I, like you, am not a complete vegetarian. In fact, my diet is worse, but I do justify my eating habits. bjb Note from KBJ: Thanks for writing, Brad.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. I'm not saying welfare reform is the answer, but that ceasing the use of an animal is the only action that will completely alleviate suffering. How about this? The only way to stop the suffering and the rights violations is to stop the use.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

It takes a slightly different take on vegetarian advocacy—trying to quantify the effects of single meal decisions to protect the environment and improve animal welfare. Hello, We've recently launched a new website, the PB&J Campaign.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

This comes at an enormous cost to animal welfare, the environment and of course public health. A shift toward more vegetarian options would indeed benefit us all. Today, we eat well over 220 pounds a year, and it’s not uncommon for many Americans to eat animal products at every single meal. We can start at our next meal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Pat Derby, President and Founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, said, “Animal Defenders International contacted PAWS last year about providing a permanent home for the African lions remaining in Bolivia. What a way to start memorial weekend. These lions really are home for the holidays.””.

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