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There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the AnimalLiberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.
Animalrights activists claimed responsibility on Monday for a fire that caused $100,000 in damage to a Boise-area store that sells fur coats and fireworks, authorities said. Excerpted from Reuters.
The FBI served a search warrant Monday on a Salt Lake City home occupied by a supporter of the AnimalLiberation Front. The agents took computers, papers and other items it thought to be related to "animal enterprise terrorism," Young said, reciting language from the warrant. From the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
For the record, I am opposed to violence in behalf of animals. I can't think of anything that does more harm to the cause of animalliberation. In the long run, the best thing we can do for animals is engage in rational persuasion. I leave you this fine evening with a column by Debra Saunders.
Why is it surprising that I have little to say about the nature of rights? It would only be surprising to one who assumes that my case for animalliberation is based upon rights and, in particular, upon the idea of extending rights to animals. But this is not my position at all.
There are intractable practical differences between environmental ethics and the animalliberation movement. Very different moral obligations follow in respect, most importantly, to domestic animals, the principal beneficiaries of the humane ethic. I hope you enjoyed them and learned from them.
From this perspective, the animal-rights debate seems considerably less urgent and a relatively "safe" area of controversy. One wonders why here (as elsewhere) there is so much concern for the plight of animals and evidently so little for that of humans.
Smart , "Utilitarianism and Generalized Benevolence," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61 [January-April 1980]: 115-21, at 115 [italics in original; endnote omitted]) Note from KBJ: Smart is mistaken if he thinks that only utilitarianism accords moral status to animals.
A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by AnimalRights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.
Animalrights activists are behind the burning of cattle trucks at Harris Farms in western Fresno County early Sunday, according to a statement released by a clearinghouse for activists. And, this happened in Fresno County which is in the San Joaquin Valley of California. I grew up there. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.
KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. What should our moral attitude be toward eating members of these species? This problem becomes crucial when the notion of consent is brought in.
As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( AnimalLiberation, 167). Certainly, not eating meat could have this protest function.
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