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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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R. G. Frey on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

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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Are We Really a Movement?

Critter News

Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. That's why people say that they have no problem eating them, harvesting them, experimenting on them, etc. It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. Animals can't do that. Just the sorry animal rights movement.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

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. On page 172, when Herzog writes, “I am conflicted over many moral issues involving animals,” I respond, “No kidding!” Yes, you read that right.)

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7 Tips to Skyrocket Performance In Small Sales Teams

Sales and Marketing Management

Not only do they have the experience to detect a skills gap, but they also have minimal bias. So do your salespeople feel able to bring new ideas to the group, to be themselves, and to share their experiences with their colleagues? Couple it with more dynamic goals to boost morale and improve sales team performance.

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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., But utilitarianism is not the theory its initial reception by the animal rights movement may have suggested.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly. It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them.