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Minnesota Activist Indicted for Animal Terrorism

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According to the indictment, unsealed today, DeMuth committed "animal enterprise terrorism and cause[d] economic damage to the animal enterprise in an amount exceeding $10,000" between Nov. The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for vandalizing two labs and three offices at the University of Iowa on Nov.

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Activists Continue to Target UC Animal Researchers

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Justice's hammer falls again and again until it ends when the price is a helpless animals life, --Feminists for Animal Liberation. And remember, cameras and motion lights have done nothing for Theunissen and Freeman.

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Michael Fox on Concern for Animals

Animal Ethics

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.

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Peter Singer on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

It would only be surprising to one who assumes that my case for animal liberation is based upon rights and, in particular, upon the idea of extending rights to animals. I make very little use of the word 'rights' in Animal Liberation , and I could easily have dispensed with it altogether.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

If so, then he is to be excused; but nobody today can think that any particular moral theory has an advantage over the others based on the status it accords animals. Peter Singer, like Smart, is a utilitarian, but he told me personally several years ago that his argument for animal liberation is independent of utilitarianism.

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"Animal Rights Terrorism"

Animal Ethics

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 animal liberation. 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.

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J. Baird Callicott on Wild Life

Animal Ethics

Concern for animal (and plant) rights and well-being is as fundamental to the land ethic as to the humane ethic, but the difference between naturally evolved and humanly bred species is an essential consideration for the one, though not for the other. ( as is the humane ethic.