101 Anti-Vivisection Activists Address Scottish Parliament
Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2010
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Vivisection is Up There with Waterboarding
Critter News
MAY 4, 2009
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Help Release Chimps from Medical Research
Critter News
MARCH 17, 2009
Project R&R is a campaign of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal cruelty vivisection anti-cruelty medical research Visit this site.
Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom
Critter News
APRIL 22, 2010
An animal rights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates He does not condone violent or illegal acts. Good luck.
Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys
Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2011
A Pearson International Airport employee tipped off the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection that a shipment of monkeys destined for Montreal was being held at the Toronto airport after arriving from China on Saturday. canada animal research vivisection primatesAwful. For the full Toronto Star story, go here.
A Reluctant Vivisector
Critter News
JUNE 7, 2009
For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research At least someone who has conducted animal research has a conscience and is willing to write about it. In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate. Read it and tell me that the end, or even the simple limitation, of animal research is nothing more than "darn government regulators!
Quote of the Week
Critter News
DECEMBER 2, 2009
There are, in fact, only two categories of doctors and scientists who are not opposed to vivisection: those who don't know enough about it, and those who make money from it. --Dr Dr Werner Hartinger, MD.
Quote of the Week
Critter News
MAY 7, 2009
"There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of Science, as they do now to burning people at the stake in the name of religion." Henry J. Bigelow, MD.
How to Confront Cruelty
Critter News
OCTOBER 26, 2008
The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Sounds interesting. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own?
On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them.
New Book Shows Mark Twain an Early Advocate Against Animal Cruelty
Critter News
OCTOBER 16, 2009
The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection. A new book by author and Stanford professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin reveals that Mark Twain was an early advocate against animal cruelty. Called Mark Twain's Book of Animals , the book contains a number of his writing about animals. From the review: Twain writes about cruelty to animals in a range of contexts, criticizing, for example, the insensitivity involved in the exploitation of animals for sport or entertainment.
On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry. A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer.
ALF Activists Burn Company That Sells Animals for Research
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
From the site: In the early morning hours of May 18th, four incendiary devices were planted at Scientific Resources International, a supplier of non-humyn primates for use in vivisection labs all over northern Nevada. Activists from ALF are claiming responsibility for a fire that caused an estimated $300,000 damage to Scientific Resources International.
On "Evil"
Animal Person
JULY 17, 2009
Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? A couple of days ago, Gingerlks commented (in part): " anyone who could watch Earthlings & not be moved is the same kind of evil.heartless. First, I do think people can either be desensitized to the rampant cruelty depicted in Earthlings, or so terrified of what might happen if they let it affect them that they simply shut down.
Animal Rights Activists Attack Berkeley Vet
Critter News
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
We acted against Timmel because he is a veterinarian in UC Berkeley's vivisection labs. This via the ALF Press Office : As he left his car parked in a garage on campus, he was whistling and had no idea he had been followed. We preceded to vandalize his shiny new Audi, paid for with blood money. We would have reduced the Audi to ashes; if not for the fact that tailing him prevented us from grabbing the instruments that would have set his sh*t aflame. But there's always tomorrow.
Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. I'd love to say that this was Engber's epiphany, and that he fought for Clayton's removal to a sanctuary and is now a powerful voice against the vivisection of sentient nonhumans.
Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?
Animal Person
APRIL 26, 2009
Is it possible that videos of open rescue or undercover videos taken of vivisection could be somehow lumped in with snuff and other vile videos and considered unacceptable (and don't think that wouldn't be intentional), therefore taking an important tool away from activists?
Becoming Sensitized to Animals in Books
Critter News
JULY 18, 2009
When Paul Farmer was a medical student, he had to do a vivisection. I read a lot. A whole lot. Over the years, I've noticed that the role of animals jumps out at me in any book I read. It may be just a couple of pages or even a couple of sentences, but it's enough to make a lasting impression. Here is one example. I read "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World."
When You Have to Make a Choice About Your Beliefs
Critter News
MARCH 7, 2009
She has no issues with vivisection either. I've decided to quit my book club, which I dearly love, because of a member who works in medical research and supports animal experimentation. This has been a very difficult decision for me, because I have such good friends in the group. I thought I could stay with the group because she does give me fodder for the blog. And like I said, I love the other people in it.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 8, 2008
4) are abhorrent acts condemned by the vast majority of animal advocates and the organizations who represent them, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Peggy Cunniff Executive Director National Anti-Vivisection Society Chicago, Aug. To the Editor: The recent terrorist attacks on scientists (“ Firebombings at Homes of 2 California Researchers ,” news article, Aug.
J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
The very presence of animals, so emblematic of delicate, complex organic tissue, surrounded by machines, connected to machines, penetrated by machines in research laboratories or crowded together in space-age "production facilities" is surely the more real and visceral source of our outrage at vivisection and factory farming than the contemplation of the quantity of pain that these unfortunate beings experience.
John Passmore (1914-2004) on Animal Suffering
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 24, 2008
They had a direct effect on seventeenth-century behavior as manifested, for example, in the popularity of public vivisections, not as an aid to scientific discovery but simply as a technical display. They nailed poor animals up on boards by their four paws to vivisect them and see the circulation of the blood which was a great subject of conversation." Neither Aquinas nor Kant nor Newman denied, however, that animals could suffer: Descartes and Malebranche thought differently.
John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals
Animal Ethics
MAY 25, 2008
But they now turn around the question what is to count as "making animals suffer unnecessarily," whether, for example, vivisection or fox-hunting are, in these terms, morally justifiable. One restriction on the absolutism of man's rule over Nature is now generally accepted: moral philosophers and public opinion agree that it is morally impermissible to be cruel to animals.
John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 29, 2008
So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection. Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly.
W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? There remains the awkward matter of a conflict of ultimate values within the individual. It could have to do with the choice of a career, or mate, or vacation spot. The predicament in such a non-moral case will concern only the individual and a few associates.
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