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Online Survey on Ethics and Animals

Animal Person

Covering both moral and strategic issues, the "Ethics and Animals" survey will provide a snapshot of our movement as of the present moment. The survey is at EthicsAndAnimals.questionpro.com , and its closing date has been extended to Monday, July 13, 2009.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). (And, if you’re a more recent fan, you can read some of her classic posts; the links are below).

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San Francisco Zoo Struggles After Tiger Attack

Critter News

Animal experts descended for investigations of their own, and employee morale sank to an all- time low. Attendance dropped by 20,831 to 904,000 in the 2008-2009 fiscal year, said Wayne Reading, the zoo's chief financial officer. The zoo's budget fell into the red as it tried to recover. Now, facing a $2.2

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Bernard E. Rollin on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance. 41 in A Companion to Bioethics , 2d ed.,

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. If you dare, check out this small chart and these diagrams , and also please let me know if you know of any from 2008 or 2009. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,

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Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) on Animals

Animal Ethics

The whole dimension of morality doesn’t apply to him, or scarcely applies to him. Brigid Brophy , " The Darwinist's Dilemma ," Critical Society [winter 2009/10]: 15-22, at 18 [first published in 1979]) Note from KBJ: I commend this essay to your attention.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? A species which has been hunted in the United States for the last 50 years (and in spite of your assertion that hunting has somehow damaged midcontinent populations 2009 saw the highest count on record). From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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