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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animalrights and animalwelfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animalwelfare tend to like animals.
Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animalrights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animalrights. This makes perfect sense.
" Two AnimalRights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animalwelfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. I don't know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is international if that matters.
In " 'AnimalRights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animalrights is. And one of that handful is the environment.
ANIMALrights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Animals Australia has a video on its website showing calves being roughly dragged off utes and thrown to the ground. Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animalrights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. would call HSUS an animalrights group (after all, HSUS doesn't even do that).
Did you see that Change.org now has an AnimalWelfare page? is clearly someone who advocates for animalrights. 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.
I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animalrights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Tags: activism musings animalrightsanimalwelfare. This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!)
The animalrights movement, such as it is, is experiencing somewhat of a crisis of usage. I feel for the purist also with regard to the terms "animalrights" and "abolition." I have a definition of animalrights and for abolition that makes me an animalrights activist and an abolitionist.
The inspectors found nothing wrong, but at least they responded to the issues raised by Animal Angels, based in Germany. My 2010 resolution is to try and track animalrights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Tags: europe portugal farm animalwelfare.
I was browsing for some quotes when I came across this group - The National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). They had a page with quotes from animalrights activists, but as I was reading, I noticed that they were very unfavorable quotes from such activists as Wayne Pacelle and Ingrid Newkirk. And here's the answer.
Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animalsrights. I’ve written before at length about how conservation and animalrights , while often drawing on mutual a reverence of nature, are different beasts. To a point.
This article in the Herald Tribune claims that animalrights is winning out over animal research. I would take the article with a grain of salt. I've read the same on the other side. It depends on who's writing the article of course.I think it's still a long, long fight. But perhaps these are positive signs.
The Pork Board has planned delegate meetings at the {annual Pork Industry} forum to discuss quality assurance rules including animal handling, and how much money to allocate to promote animalwelfare. Tags: animal cruelty pigs pork farm animalwelfare factory farm animalwelfare.
I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animalwelfare, another is an animalrights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animalrights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animalwelfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animalwelfare factory farm.
One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animalrights out of their sphere of concern. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animalrightsAnimalwelfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. macworld.com). takepart.com).
City Fauna and another animalwelfare charity named Ehida brought around 40 pets from their shelters to the park on Sunday in an attempt to re-home them. They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters. Byalyanava said.
An animal-rights group that watchdogs research facilities across the country has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, citing multiple incidents in which animals were injured, escaped from their cages or were found dead. From the normantranscript.com.
However, I certainly tried to read Stephanie Ernst's posts at Change.org's AnimalRights blog. Now I find out from Digging Through the Dirt that Stephanie has left and started a new project called AnimalRights & Anti-Oppresssion. There is a huge difference in what each term conveys and the movement it describes.
Clearly the animalrights community is much more emboldened and aggressive than they have been in the past," said {National Milk Producers Federation} spokesman Chris Galen. "We Tags: farm animalwelfare factory farm agribusiness. So, now you just try to spend more money to spread more lies. We need to play offense."
An animalrights activist has offered $30,000 to anyone who facilitates the freeing of primates, or the end of vivisection, at the University of Kansas, a place cited for numerous animalwelfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.
The move immediately provoked anger from animalrights activists, who felt they were making headway against the spectacle after Catalonia banned bullfighting within its region last year on animalwelfare grounds. "It
Seems that the guy that wrote Sarah Palin's convention speech was none other then noted conservative and alleged animalrights supporter Matthew Scully. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animalrights. The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though.
By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. Now, I'm the first one to say that when I began blogging I thought the end of the use of animals would never come, so in the meantime, welfare reforms could at least be supported.
In a written statement the company said it was making the move after an investigation revealed that Radlo Foods violated the terms of an agreement by working with a farm that is not in compliance with its strict animalwelfare standards. The group's findings have now triggered an investigation by the state's AnimalWelfare Program.
Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animalrights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. From the MetroWest Daily News.
Animalrights advocates have singled out the crates, known as sow stalls, as inhumane, and several states have moved to ban or restrict their use not only in pork production, but also in the production of eggs and veal. There are alternatives we think are better for the welfare of sows.”.
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 AnimalWelfare.
Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. It's not just a question of animalrights. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animalwelfare susan g. for cancer research. That stuff is horrible!
Charles River Labs, a company which develops drugs and conducts contract animal testing, has an atrocious animalrights record, although they deny it of course. The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animalwelfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China.
The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animalrights groups accusing Ringling Bros. of violating the Endangered Species Act when it uses bullhooks and chains to control its performing pachyderms.
The International Fund for AnimalWelfare ( 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.
Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest AnimalRights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animalwelfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact.
Some animal-rights activists said the area still would not provide enough roaming room, and Los Angeles City Councilman Tony Cardenas suggested that the zoo’s lone Asian elephant be sent instead to the Performing AnimalWelfare Society, a sanctuary in San Andreas. The donation will go towards moving Billy to PAWS.
I don't believe they are working for human welfare. 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 animalrights activists. I'm sorry, but I am not moved.
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. Attorney's Office for possible charges under the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
This gives animalrights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Animalwelfare activists protested the transfer. I received an alert from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Good way to end 2010. Here's the story as reported in NewsWest. ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP)
The question of whether animals possess rights is once again topical, largely as a result of the recent surge of interest in animalwelfare and in the moral pros and cons of eating animals and using them in scientific research. Arguments to show that animals do have rights, therefore, are at a premium. (
I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at AnimalRights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animalrights stories in the news. Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. People are talking.
Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " AnimalRights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animalrights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on.
cause for concern about his welfare. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animalrights Thanksgiving veganism. And not just dead, mind you, but cause for celebration. Yet the turtle. Concern about his life. A hope for his life to continue. Even putting yourself in harm's way to help him. turkey. . .
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