Quote of the Week
Critter News
APRIL 22, 2009
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Animals don't vote." Because government is not. Paul Harvey, American Radio Commentator.
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Quote of the Week
Critter News
OCTOBER 14, 2008
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Albert Schweitzer.
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27,000 Animals Rescued in Texas
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
The raid followed an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. An Arlington, Texas, municipal judge ruled that the animals suffered from neglect and cruel conditions, and an appeal by the company's owners to a higher court was denied last weekend. From the Detroit Free Press.
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How to Confront Cruelty
Critter News
OCTOBER 26, 2008
The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer.
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Update on National Meat Association vs. Brown
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently heard arguments in National Meat Association v.
The Value of a Life
Critter News
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
For example, why should an animal with years of life be sacrificed so someone can have a meal that may last 30 minutes and which gets flushed down the toilet shortly afterwards? Why should an animal suffer excruciating pain so a women can dab makeup on her face? Most of the women I know don’t even benefit from the makeup.
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Europeans Continue to Search for Alternatives to Animal Research.Why Not Americans?
Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Industry representatives were also present at the conference, which was held as part of the European Partnership on Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA). The EPAA was created in 2005 and is an unprecedented collaboration between science and industry to reduce animal suffering in scientific tests.
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AUGUST 17, 2009
Well, if your dog suffers from arthritis or joint pain, this giveaway is for you! One lucky reader will get a 3 month supply of this amazing supplement.
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100 R. G. Frey on Animal Suffering
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 31, 2008
My view, then, is not that which it has often been taken to be in discussion and which Singer, Regan, Clark, and others blast in their work; I am not suggesting that, because they lack language, animals can be factory farmed without suffering. Animals can suffer, which they could not unless they were conscious; so they are conscious.
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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Please do not advertise to sell your pets.
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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing
Critter News
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
"It broke my heart to see the suffering that is documented in the enclosed video", wrote Anderson, in a letter sent on behalf of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). But the animals suffering behind closed doors at AIIMS must endure this nightmare every day."
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100 Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2008
Although the court noted that these practices are controversial and that downed animals ‘suffer greatly,’ it found the record on appeal insufficient to warrant striking the regulations at this time,” explains an article from the Environmental News Service.
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John Passmore (1914-2004) on Animal Suffering
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 24, 2008
Neither Aquinas nor Kant nor Newman denied, however, that animals could suffer: Descartes and Malebranche thought differently. It is impossible, they argued, to be cruel to animals, since animals are incapable of feeling.
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UK investigation reveals dead piglets and caged mother pigs
AnimalEquality.net
JULY 31, 2024
Animal Equality’s UK Executive Director–alongside award-winning photographer Aitor Garmendia–has uncovered distressing animal suffering within a UK pig facility known as Cross Farm.
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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal
Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. It's cruel. No argument here.
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100 Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 12, 2012
Rock & Rawhide is a newly formed 501(c)3 organization whose primary mission is to increase the level of adoptions for dogs and cats in kill shelters by decreasing the stress these animals experience through distraction therapy. They do this by providing toys and other items.
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100 On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. To rest easy, those who buy or sell products from nonhuman bodies must forget that each victim suffered personal loss of freedom, well-being, and life" (140). What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain?
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100 John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals
Animal Ethics
MAY 25, 2008
In other words, what they hated—and by no means perversely—was the enjoyment of animal suffering; to the mere fact that the bears suffered as a consequence of human action they were indifferent. That, on the whole, is the Christian tradition. Controversies no doubt remain.
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Crates
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 26, 2007
Imagine arguing not that human chattel slavery ought to be abolished, but that it ought to be reformed so as to inflict less suffering on the slaves. Someone might argue that there is no incompatibility between (1) working to decrease animal suffering and (2) working toward the abolition of factory farming.
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Rescue for the rescuer.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 24, 2009
A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. you lose interest in social activities and friends.
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100 Moral Vegetarianism, Part 13 of 13
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 6, 2009
It might be suggested that although becoming a vegetarian as a protest against animal suffering or a way of committing oneself to helping the hungry people of the world is not a moral duty, it is still a moral act; it is a supererogatory act. One final point. This view is not implausible, but it needs to be qualified in certain ways.
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From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
JULY 22, 2008
Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience. I was astonished by how many displayed behaviors that overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other trauma-related disorders.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
To the Editor: It’s mind-boggling that in spite of overwhelming evidence that the consumption of animal products is directly responsible for a host of human diseases , greenhouse gas production and indescribable animal suffering, the general public continues to satiate its taste buds and support factory farming.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 31, 2007
Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption.
Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Veil of Ignorance
Animal Ethics
JULY 7, 2008
What have humane people to say to the tremendous mass of animal suffering inflicted in the interests of the Table?
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From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 31, 2010
While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry.
Deliciously Vegan!
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 24, 2008
Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factory farm conditions. They realize that factory farming is inhumane.
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Turkey
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2006
Consequently, no turkey has suffered or died on my account for the past quarter century. They can't solve the problem of animal suffering all by themselves, so they throw up their hands in defeat and go on eating meat. Addendum: Sometimes, in talking to omnivores, I get the sense that they feel impotent.
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40 Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on "Humane Slaughter"
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 17, 2008
By all means let us reform the system of butchery as far as it can be reformed, that is, by the total abolition of those foul dens of torture known as "private slaughter-houses," and by the substitution of municipal abattoirs, equipped with the best modern appliances, and under efficient supervision; for there is no doubt that the sum of (..)
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40 John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering. The degree of restriction placed on human behavior, furthermore, is relatively slight.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
Animals suffer when killed. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse? I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. No pearly phrases can make that any better. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,
Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2011
Furthermore, I would suggest not only that it is permissible for those who care about animals to eat meat; they have a duty to do so. If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease.
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40 H. B. Acton (1908-1974) on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 23, 2009
When it is asked whether animals have rights, and whether human beings have duties to them, the question, I think, is partly moral and partly verbal. Let us consider the moral question first.
Philip E. Devine on the Overflow Principle
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 2, 2011
If capacity for pain were the only feature of persons which entitled them to our consideration, then vegetarians would be right in attacking the person/animal distinction. This approach to animal suffering allows us to reach a happy compromise between the utilitarian and non-utilitarian approaches to the problem of cruelty to animals.
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Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
We know that animals suffer as well. I imagine my own horror if my husband were to be brutally taken from me and slaughtered after our years of caring for each other and sharing our lives. We empathize with our fellow humans when they endure mental or physical torture and condemn the cruel barbarians that inflict it.
Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2006
For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering. If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. There's more!
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40 Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 2, 2008
For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering. If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. There's more!
Reasons Consistently Applied
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle.
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Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
We can willingly support an industry that uses doublespeak to mislead the public about the conditions in which its animals are raised, or we can boycott those very animal agribusiness industries.
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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering. That is absurd.
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From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
JULY 21, 2008
By comparing the common mind-set that has produced both the past injustices against humans and the current abuses of animals, we can and do inspire debate and convince many people that it is a human obligation to speak out against injustice to all beings. Animal suffering and human suffering are undeniably interconnected.
Vegetarianism and IQ
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 15, 2006
Given that belief, they no doubt also believe that it is wrong to knowingly contribute to unnecessary suffering. If they are at all informed about modern animal agricultural practices, they know that raising animals intensively in factory farms greatly increases the amount of animal suffering in the world.
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40 Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
Rest assured that if you are purchasing meat from your favorite fast food restaurant, your favorite sit-down chain restaurant, or your local grocery store, you are purchasing the flesh of a tortured animal.
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