Critter News
OCTOBER 26, 2008
The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.
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Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
"environmentalists" would have to value the life of an Atlantic salmon more than the life of a human because, in environmental terms, there are too few Atlantic salmons and far too many humans. To old-speciesists, nonhumans must justify their existence by proving useful to humans; in contrast, some or all humans have inherent value.
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. No surprise there.
Critter News
JULY 18, 2009
When Paul Farmer was a medical student, he had to do a vivisection. He had to take a life to save humans. There was one story that took up less than one page that is the animal legacy of the book to me. He was disturbed by it. He was staying with a Catholic priest who talked to him all night about it.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"
Animal Person
APRIL 26, 2009
Juluri's focus on animals used to entertain humans is intentional and speaks to the legal battle he refers to. None of this does justice to the earth, and our unique place in it as a species which has great privileges and also appropriate responsibilities. And finally, who is to decide when a video is entertaining versus informative?
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