Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The answer may lie more in the work of executive producer Gael Garcia Bernal, co-founder of the Mexican Ambulante Film Festival and the actor who co-presented the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film with the words, “As a Mexican, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of wall that separates us.”*

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

According to a communique received by Bite Back , they did this in protest of Max Mara's use of furs. ALF activists in Polanco Mexico bombed a Max Mara clothing shop. Max Mara is an Italian fashion house. You can read about them here. With this sabotage we join the international week against MaxMara.

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

I think I'm going to start a contest for the most absurd/ironic/bizarre sentence to come out of the mouth of a human each week. Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?" Perhaps all sandwich shops should be housed in abattoirs.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I know plenty of people still detest Vick for what he did, but if there are protesters at his games or outside the Eagles’ training facility, I haven’t heard about them. Certainly, he's on his best behavior and the Humane Society is using him to battle dog-fighting rings. These are his thoughts. But where's PETA? I don't get it.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Films, blogs, books, e-zines, sanctuaries, protests, promotion of adoption (of humans and nonhumans!). And because of that we should throw everything out there that we can in the service of justice for sentient nonhumans. These four years have been sobering for me and I think that deciding to be a parent has compounded my reserve.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. Albatross chicks will no longer have to endure slowly getting eaten alive, unlike this poor bird.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. It was sent back to trial court, but by then the yearly event had become such a media circus – with live TV coverage and protesters taking down the license plates of shooters’ vehicles – that the sponsors ended it.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

More dramatically memorable is Dunn’s experience in Bolivia, where he hoped to travel to Chalalan Lodge, an eco-lodge run by the local indigenous population, but ends up facing the 2019 election protests with blockades and a threat of violence at every road leaving the city. I had hoped for more.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2023

While we were there, a pair of Rufous Crab Hawks noisily protested the presence of a Common Black Hawk that was comfortably perched in the vegetation. A Cocoi Heron flew over, presumably looking for a place to mount the classic sit-and-wait but instead found human observers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

According to Wikipedia, “A l owl ife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community” The local Nanhui shrikes are well aware that the word “lowlife” has an owl hidden inside, and mark the appearance of owls in their territory with harsh protests.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? If we don't succeed, well, then it's going to affect all of humanity.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. Yes, I sent the protest. Here's my question: What is "a humane future?"

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2010

I think it's just another example of short-term vs. long-term thinking, to which all humans are victim. But, as is typical with many large industries, there is a resistance to change unless there is a clear and immediate profit windfall. Why change for welfare purposes if there is no clear economic benefit? From the Sydney Morning Herald.

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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. One suspects that the SPCA and the American Humane Society have done more to stop cruelty to animals than vegetarians ever could.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The rhetoric of terror has been used to “justify” human rights abuses in Guantanamo. These Congresspersons didn’t enact this legislation to make you safer. They enacted it to make animal abusers and the corporations that profit from that animal abuse richer.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

And we’re developing a rabies vaccination and sterilization program that we can offer to rural communities to humanely prevent rabies and control dog populations. Please send your message of protest today. We’ve stopped culls like this in other Chinese cities, and we can stop this one too!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

Maybe they have decided to boycott species with Russian-sounding names as a way to protest against Putin’s policies. The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys.

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