Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.” When it comes to pets, the only reasons he considers for keeping pets have to do with the enrichment of the lives of people. Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S.,

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Pit Bulls Animal Rights 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Each product must be assigned a cost including the different cuts of meat for human consumption, different food products for animal consumption (pet food) and basic ingredients for glue.". "The meat packing industry takes a single input, a steer, and produces many different final products.

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Critter News

JUNE 1, 2009

A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. A jury in West Haverstraw deliberated less than two hours before convicting Robert Everle of all 13 charges of torturing, injuring and starving animals. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.

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Zoos New York Animal Cruelty Farmed Animals 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

It's an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as intelligent creatures that could be someone's pet. And, of course, this view of farm animals is the norm. Tags: meat pigs pork farm animal welfare. it's just a turkey."

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Industry Farmed Animals Farm Animal Animal Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Cape Verde 251

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

We "traditionally" have applied our social mores in some places and not others, and we should go back to "tradition," which I bet has something to do with continuing to care about our dogs while continuing to feign care for "farm animals," as they're value is as food only. Let the games begin.

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Emotional Farmed Animals Farm Animal Agenda 100