What's the Difference Between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights?
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JUNE 4, 2009
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Animal Welfare Supported in Islam?
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JANUARY 12, 2009
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Animal Welfare at Change.org
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Did you see that Change.org now has an Animal Welfare page? 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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Ontario Animal Welfare Law Goes Into Effect
Critter News
MARCH 8, 2009
The provincial government says it's gone from "worst to first" and Ontario is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals like police dogs and horses. Pet owners convicted of a crime under the act can also be barred from owning any animals for life.
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Another Fake Animal Welfare Group
Critter News
DECEMBER 9, 2009
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 animal rights activists, but as I was reading, I noticed that they were very unfavorable quotes from such activists as Wayne Pacelle and Ingrid Newkirk. Who are these guys?
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Farm Animal Welfare Fight Heats Up in Ohio
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness. There may also be unintended consequences. Would such a bill lead to jurisdiction over puppy mill breeders as well? It's an issue to follow though.
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100 EU Sends Inspectors to Portugal for Farm Animal Welfare
Critter News
DECEMBER 28, 2009
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 animal rights issues in the homelands of Spain and Portugal. Tags: europe portugal farm animal welfare.
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The Link Between Animal Welfare and Human Welfare
Critter News
JUNE 12, 2012
This is an interesting opinion piece about the link between animal welfare and human welfare in nations. From the Huffington Post.
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On "Animal Rights Conferences"
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 don't know how big the readership of that blog is, but it is international if that matters. If it matters to you to clear any of this up, fire away.
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Ontario Updates Animal Welfare Law
Critter News
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
That's right 1919. Bill 50 makes it a provincial offence to abuse any animal, and it establishes the strongest penalties in the country for those charged with animal cruelty -- including the potential to prohibit offenders from owning animals ever again. It's the first update since 1919.
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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Tags: activism musings animal rights animal welfare. This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!)
We Should Kill More Lions
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
99% of the commentary I have seen has been angry bordering on outright hostile, the few exceptions mostly being the kind of right wing “news” sites that love nothing more than tweaking a tree-hugging liberal like myself. Conservation Animal Rights hunting' I’ve discussed this, at length, before.
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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable.
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Animal Welfare Concerns May Be Influencing UK Animal Research
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2012
This article in the Herald Tribune claims that animal rights 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.
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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
In " 'Animal Rights:' 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 animal rights is. And one of that handful is the environment.
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The Parable of the Goat Mites
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No No such association was formed on behalf of the ear mites.)
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211 Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.
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100 Southern Senator Stops Confirmation Over Animal Protection
Critter News
JULY 19, 2009
He is the co-editor, for example, of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, which examines views both in favor and against animal law. The position he's going for doesn't even deal with animal issues, but, if true, their corporate opposition shows the fear and the long reach of these greedy monsters.
Quebec to Review Puppy Mill Laws
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
The fallout from the huge puppy mill seizure is fueling calls for a review of Quebec's animal rights laws, which are abysmal even for Canada. Animal welfare workers are calling for stricter laws on breeding facilities after more than 500 allegedly malnourished dogs were seized from a Quebec puppy farm last week.
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EU Bans Battery Cages
Critter News
JANUARY 25, 2012
1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.
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Big Ag Fighting Back with PR
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2009
Clearly the animal rights 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 animal welfare factory farm agribusiness. So, now you just try to spend more money to spread more lies. We need to play offense."
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100 Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2010
Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animal rights 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.
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100 Thousands Offered for Primate Freedom
Critter News
APRIL 22, 2010
An animal rights 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 animal welfare violations. Tags: University of Kansas animal research vivisection primates. He does not condone violent or illegal acts.
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World Animal Day in Minsk
Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2008
City Fauna and another animal welfare 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.
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100 Quebec is the Best Province to be an Animal Abuser
Critter News
MAY 23, 2011
An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record. That sucks. From the Montreal Gazette.
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On The Goode Family and Infiltration
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. macworld.com). takepart.com).
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Our Strange Relationship with Animals
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2009
I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals. One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. This quote from the animal rights person is spot-on for me.[Maria's]
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Komen and KFC: A Match Made in Hell
Critter News
MAY 17, 2010
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 animal rights. Tags: animal research Stupid KFC farm animal welfare susan g. for cancer research. That stuff is horrible!
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Ringling Brother Accused of Violating ESA
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
And they certainly have no right to use endangered species as performers. The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros.
Halal Slaughter Causing a Furor In Quebec
Critter News
MARCH 15, 2012
Quebec is not known for its animal welfare concerns or laws. I think the issue stems from this being an Islamic practice and the fear of contaminated meat, not concern for the animals. From JTA, the Global News Service of the Jewish People.
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Sarah Palin's Sellout of a Speechwriter
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Seems that the guy that wrote Sarah Palin's convention speech was none other then noted conservative and alleged animal rights supporter Matthew Scully. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though.
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100 Stephanie Ernst Leaves Change.org
Critter News
DECEMBER 22, 2009
However, I certainly tried to read Stephanie Ernst's posts at Change.org's Animal Rights blog. Now I find out from Digging Through the Dirt that Stephanie has left and started a new project called Animal Rights & Anti-Oppresssion. There is a huge difference in what each term conveys and the movement it describes.
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100 Air Canada Feeling Pressure to Stop Shipping Lab Monkeys
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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Bob Barker Donates $1.5 Million to LA Zoo
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
million donation, courtesy of former “Price is Right” host Bob Barker. 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 Animal Welfare Society, a sanctuary in San Andreas.
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100 Charles River Labs Continues Expanding
Critter News
APRIL 27, 2010
Charles River Labs, a company which develops drugs and conducts contract animal testing, has an atrocious animal rights record, although they deny it of course. The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animal welfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China.
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Quash the Squash
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. Right now, the UK government is considering new EU legislation that may increase the number of chickens allowed in rearing sheds. Even at current minimum standards, each bird is given less space than a sheet of paper.
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100 Working Animals Face "Firing Squad" in Developing Countries
Critter News
JANUARY 6, 2009
Humar, pictured on the right, is just one animal to have suffered this traditional, yet ineffective treatment, to horrifying effect. Tags: developing countries donkeys animal cruelty working animals animal welfare. We don’t really mean that they will be lined up and shot. His suffering didn’t stop there.
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100 Australian Animal Rights Campaign to Help Calves
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2011
ANIMAL rights 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.
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Bob Barker Offers to Pay to Move Canadian Elephants to Sanctuary
Critter News
DECEMBER 19, 2011
I hope, when I reach their age, I'm as active and effective as Bob Barker and Betty White are in the animal rights movement. Toronto city council voted in October to move the elephants to a facility run by PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society) near Galt, Calif., Excerpted from CBC News. called ARK 2000.
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Bullfighting to Appear on Spanish TV Again
Critter News
AUGUST 31, 2012
The move immediately provoked anger from animal rights activists, who felt they were making headway against the spectacle after Catalonia banned bullfighting within its region last year on animal welfare grounds. "It
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100 Foie Gras Disappearing From San Diego Restaurants
Critter News
APRIL 16, 2009
Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights 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 animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact.
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100 Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Animal welfare 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)
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100 Thoroughbred Dealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
Yeah, right. A judge convicted Paragallo of 33 of 34 misdemeanor animal cruelty counts in a nonjury trial in Greene County. The 52-year-old Long Island resident was charged after state police and animal welfare investigators raided his farm in Coxsackie in April and seized 177 malnourished horses. And he didn't know?
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100 Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
And if Compassion in World Farming wanted to see if I knew of their campaigns and might want to support them, they could have easily Googled CIWF right at Animal Person, at which point they'd find: On Compassion in World Farming. But that was back in 2006. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See.
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