Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. Today is the launch of. Also, it has the added bonus of organizing my content better than I have. The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources.

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2009

Some of the groups attending will be: FARM In Defense of Animals Sea Shepherd ACT Radio Anti-Fur Society E/Environmental Mag Eko Zone Healing Species League of Humane Voters Mercy For Animals Stop Animal Exploitation Now! Tags: animal rights. It sounds like they are participating in some form or another.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages calls itself "an animal rights-protection-abolitionist organization," which I find interesting. Regardless, they are joining Friends of Animals and Hearts for Animals on Saturday December 5. I'm sure a lot went into that and I wonder why it is defined that way.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I like reading the blog for ANIMAL, the animal rights group in Portugal. I have no idea how big or effective they are, but it's nice to know that there are people in Portugal who feel the same about animals as I do. VIVA ANIMAL! Tags: portuguese-americans portugal animal rights.

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2011

Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said. And not very optimistic. But, still, I can't dismiss it. From Fox News (blech).

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Animal Person

JULY 25, 2010

I understand how someone who supports the Humane Society of the United States might think an event celebrating "humane" farms would be a good id, as HSUS isn't an animal rights organization. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film animal rights Tribe of Heart.

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Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

First of all, it's gross (find your own planet to dump your trash on), but it's also dangerous for animals. There are so many fronts on the war for animal rights (and I'm increasingly believing that "war" is the right word for it) and often times it's hard to know what to do. And who ingests them? Marine life.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

I don't expect that many readers will be converted to the cause of animal rights by reading this book. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], xvii-xviii) There is a vital long-term benefit as well. I hope that this book will help this cause along.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2010

the tape {from an undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals,) Conklin is shown kicking a cow that is lying down. Phillips said threats of violence and murder made by animal-rights activists against the Conklins are still under review and information may be forwarded to the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 4, 2010

Here is a New York Times blog post about legal rights for animals.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 9, 2009

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about legal rights for animals. Peter Singer is quoted.

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Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 30, 2010: **A Mercy for Animals video spurs calls for a ban on tail docking in the State of New York; **Animal rights activists try to stop construction of a bullfighting ring in Beijing; **A PETA protestor gets a pie in the face for protesting against the Canadian seal hunt; **And legislation is proposed in China (..)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

is clearly someone who advocates for animal rights. Ernst believes we don't have a right to use sentient nonhumans and all of her posts (and those of Alex Melonas, who also posts at animalrights.change.org) are unequivocal about animal use.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I do believe they want prestige, tenure, royalties and patent rights. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2011

Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. In our opinion, Air Canada is not legally obligated to accept monkeys as cargo," said the opinion written by Lawyers for Animal Welfare.

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Critter News

MAY 26, 2009

"You see people shut down if you talk about how a rat can suffer," says Chad Sandusky, director of toxicology and research at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that fights for animal rights and advocates vegetarianism.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. Collect the Numbers As an advocate for animals, you never know when you’re going to find yourself engaged in a discussion with someone about animal research issues. I especially like these suggestions.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

So why is one type of animal cruelty (dogfighting) more reprehensible than another (lobster-boiling)? If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2008

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.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

The post in the ANIMAL blog is in Portuguese , but here's the gist of it. She was volunteering for ANIMAL. ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group that had already been having weekly actions directed at this particular shop, so they were not surprised by the venom of the owner's response.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. CAF’s grants help make possible the next generation of animal rights scholarship and artistry.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), died on February 15, 2024, at the age of 73. Wise was a trailblazer in the fight for legal rights for animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 11, 2010

The International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ), is a non-profit organization working to save animals in crisis worldwide, to help protect our oceans’ whale population. IFAW advocates for the protection of wildlife in their habitats, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and rescues individual animals.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

Good news following an investigation of farm animal abuses by Mercy for Animals. Nathan Runkle, executive director of Mercy for Animals, an Ohio-based animal rights organization, commends Eggland's Best "for finally stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility for their involvement in this abusive facility."

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing.

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Animal Person

APRIL 4, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members and Friends! Getting people to understand animal rights is much more difficult than was establishing that Earth travels around the sun. From David Cantor. This past Monday's botched radio interview is rescheduled for next Monday, April 6th -- again at 3:00 P.M. East Coast time.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Today's message and call to action is from David Cantor of Responsible Policies for Animals (thanks, Mike!). Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Meanwhile, donate when you can, get friends to become Responsible Policies for Animals members --and thank you for your support! . Best wishes, . David Cantor.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Sharon McEachern has a blog post about animal rights in Switzerland.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

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 animal liberation is based upon rights and, in particular, upon the idea of extending rights to animals. But this is not my position at all.

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Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

I notice that if I use "animal rights activist" or anything with the word "rights" in it, because it's loaded and misunderstood, my listener often has an immediate bias of some kind. People have a relationship, whether or not they are aware, to the term "animal rights." And not necessarily for animals.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, Human Rights Physician In " Why Justice for Animals Is the Social Movement of Our Time " recently published in Psychology Today , Dr. Ferdowsian argues that human and animal rights are not mutually exclusive.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

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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Animal Person

OCTOBER 30, 2010

I understand this is a children's book, but particularly if you're trying to be a voice for animals, it would behoove you to make connections that might be missed otherwise. For instance, the animals are enslaved. And when you read the reviews on various sites that sell the book, there is no mention of how we enslave animals.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

Look, I think it's great that scientists are observing the nonhuman world and reporting back to us that we are in fact all animals and as such we all have personalities (though I don't really get that vibe as the angle). At least there is a similar response given by the scientists in this article who study animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 20, 2009

A funny, heart-warming video called “ SMILE ,” developed by “I’m Tired of” (ITo), the makers of the popular “I’m Tired of Animal Cruelty” bracelet, which raises money for animal rights and rescue charities, has reached viral levels.

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