Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site. Search the Libraries A good library is one of your best sources of information on the whos, whats, whens, wheres, and whys of animal research.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Keith, Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, is extremely close to reaching our goal of collecting 10,000 signatures on our "Truth Behind Labels" petition to the USDA to tell them their "naturally raised" label is not natural. We're currently at 9,556 signatures—96% of the way there!

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

Closer to home, the AP story reports that: fish collected in waterways near or in Chicago; West Chester, Pa.; According to the column, more than 100 different pharmaceutical compounds have turned up in surface water around the world.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

I was privileged to be present in the court when this case was argued.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

According to Leopold, collective enlightened self-interest on the part of human beings does not go far enough; the land ethic in his opinion (and no doubt this reflects his own moral intuitions) requires "love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value."

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

As far as I know, no good evidence has ever been collected to support or refute (1). Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization. People who do not eat meat tend to be less cruel and inhumane to persons than people who do eat meat. But Hitler was also a vegetarian.

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