Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

" Two Animal Rights Conferences: Will you be there? " by Drew Wilson at Care2's animal welfare blog has yet to have any comments about rights and welfare. I haven't been to either conference, so I can say nothing from personal experience. If it matters to you to clear any of this up, fire away.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Europe banned the use of great apes in animal testing Wednesday as part of drastically tightened rules to scale back the number of animals used in scientific research.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. Formed in 2007, this organization seeks to promote the humane treatment of animals by promoting effective animal sanctuary management. Animal Rescue Corps puts animal welfare above all else. A non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.,

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. My experiences are unlike any of the film's subjects.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

This is a guest post from Cherie, and I think that it is something everyone who rescues animals needs to read. “As an animal welfare worker (professionally or as a volunteer), you know what it feels like when you make a positive difference in the life of an animal. Thanks Cherie!

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Animal Ethics

MAY 14, 2008

The question of whether animals possess rights is once again topical, largely as a result of the recent surge of interest in animal welfare and in the moral pros and cons of eating animals and using them in scientific research.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2007

But bulls are not cars, but rather living beings that experience pain and suffering. If there were transparency to the public spectacle of bull riding, it would be clear that this is a frantically scared animal desperately trying to escape. Brad Goldberg President, Animal Welfare Trust Mamaroneck, N.Y.,

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

How should Animal Control evaluate their claim? It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid USDA animal welfare us. Stick another dog in the same situation and see if it dies too! Weather conditions were also similar.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) have mobilized to Japan to conduct an assessment and assist with animal rescue efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. About IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare).

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

I don't care if they're supposedly working for altruistic purposes (they're not, but that's another story), they are allowing animals to suffer through negligent care separate from the excruciating experiments they must still undergo. vice president of animal research issues for The HSUS.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

We will increase our level of tactics as long as non-human primates and other animals are tortured to death at the hands of those driven by profit and as long as the University of California shows a complete disregard for the suffering of the non-human prisoners.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2010

The Union County sheriff's office said it had four veterinarians with experience in large-animal care review the tape. "In 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 Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Her death on an operating table in the Bronx would help animal welfare advocates break a long-standing stalemate in Congress and push through the most significant animal-protection bill in American history. At the same time, she became a martyr to the cardiology revolution at a crucial moment in its development.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Not the day, the film, where Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. There are few animal rights stories in the news. We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

I applaud his recognition that cows are individual feeling beings that share with us the ability to experience happiness and contentment, fear and pain. Even at Bob Bansen’s dairy, food comes at the cost of animal welfare. NEWKIRK President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Norfolk, Va., 10, 2012

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

If a person is in a discipline in which he or she is attempting to understand a culture or wants to experience a culture, vegetarianism is nearly impossible. So, how you would respond a person like me who cares for animal welfare, consciously stays away from the worse meat he can, and eats it mostly for cultural reasons.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

They symbolize everything that is wrong with using animals to entertain people in circuses and that will be vividly clear when they run free in their new home. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide. What a way to start memorial weekend. These lions really are home for the holidays.””.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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