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On Discounts on Adoptions

Animal Person

With record numbers of animals being abandoned due to foreclosures and the economy, and let's face it, adopting a dog or cats isn't going to save you any money, do you think it is irresponsible to offer discounts? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. What do you think about discounted adoptions (or even giveaways)?

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Is Dolphin Therapy Cruel to Dolphins?

Critter News

Smith, who was originally inspired by watching a dolphin interact with her mentally disabled brother in the 1970s, offered the therapy free of charge for more than a decade, before abandoning the work out of ethical concerns in the 1990s.

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Why I'm Not Giving Up On Capitalism

Animal Person

I guess part of my refusal to completely abandon capitalism is the related notion (byproduct? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Thomas Paine's Corner has more on the story here. I'm going to contact Madeleine Pickens to thank her, as well as Burns Hargis , the President of Oklahoma State University. goal, even?

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"Animal Rights Terrorism"

Animal Ethics

If I can show you that one of your moral principles entails that it's wrong to eat meat, then, to avoid contradiction, you must either abandon the principle or abstain from meat. If you're unwilling to abandon the principle, then you must abstain from meat. Here is a brilliant example of this approach.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on Bentham's Treatment of Animals

Animal Ethics

"The French have already discovered," Bentham wrote, "that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same plight."

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Want to Help Feed Homeless Animals?

Animal Ethics

The Animal Rescue Site's corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals inexchange for advertising. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the purple box "Click here to give" to fund food for animals for free. It doesn't cost you a thing.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Many hunters compound their cruelty by abandoning their dogs when they are no longer of use. To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal.