Critter News

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. Tags: quotes. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Tags: quotes. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Critter News

JUNE 7, 2009

For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research. At least someone who has conducted animal research has a conscience and is willing to write about it. In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.

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Animal Person

JULY 2, 2009

Covering both moral and strategic issues, the "Ethics and Animals" survey will provide a snapshot of our movement as of the present moment. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. A new survey is getting the attention of many within the global animal protection community.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

Animal welfare is a cost of doing business, not a moral obligation. Tags: economics pigs farm animal welfare agribusiness. We've argued in previous posts that factory farming is simply not conducive to animal welfare. Better conditions for animals hurt the bottom line. Here's an example. These pigs are simply raw materials.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 6, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. CONCLUSION There is no doubt that moral vegetarianism will continue to be a position that attracts people concerned with the plight of animals and with humanitarian goals. One final point.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. Just because you can tell me that a cell mutates does not mean that you have the moral authority to tell me what kind of society I should live in. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. One might assume—although again this assumption may not be jusitified [sic]—that Mr. One might assume—although again this assumption may not be jusitified [sic]—that Mr. Morse was using this consideration as a moral argument for vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. ARGUMENTS FOR MORAL VEGETARIANISM A variety of arguments have been given for vegetarianism. Sometimes they take such a sketchy form that it is not completely clear they are moral arguments. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. People who do not eat meat for moral reasons tend to be less brutal than people who do eat meat. People who eat meat after reflection on the morality of eating meat are less brutal than people who eat meat without such reflection.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. For example, if one could pick up shed animal legs in a pasture in which animals roam freely among their own kind, there might be no moral objection to eating the legs. They suggest that any simple moral vegetarianism is impossible.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. You will, therefore, agree with Martin about moral vegetarianism but not about Christianity. Another reason is moral. One is health.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Consequently, the killing of some animals for food, if done painlessly, is not morally objectionable. According to Benn, only moral agents have rights. It is clear that few animals, if any, are moral agents in this sense.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2009

per cent of embryos came to term) and has moral issues attached as well. Tags: news. CheMyong Ko, a team member of the University of Kentucky in Lexington says “The next step for us is to generate a true disease model&#. Unfortunately, cloing is not efficient, (just 1.7

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Factor in productivity loss and lost opportunities, morale implications, turnover and recruiting costs and the price tag starts to skyrocket. read more'

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

Animal experts descended for investigations of their own, and employee morale sank to an all- time low. Tags: zoos california san francisco tigers. Supervisor Chris Daly made an unsuccessful attempt to force the zoo to become a rescue facility, legislators questioned the zoo's management, and the zoo's director was ousted.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics animal rights Animal welfare Nutrition The Goode Family Veganism Vegetarianism. Related articles by Zemanta Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies (scienceblog.com). Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?

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Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

I'm not talking about morality here, I'm talking about language. And the real question is, is there thought--or is there morality-without language? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. It's not a judgment or an accusation, it's just an explanation. But enough of that, where do you stand on the sugar/restaurant issue?

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Animal Person

JUNE 1, 2009

But now the blinders are coming off, and it is time Leftists take their own off and wake up to the fact of the ethological revolution and its profound implications for human identity, our moral relationships to nonhuman animals, and to politics. Humanized' mice speak volumes (scienceblog.com).

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. Tags: activism animal rights political movement. I read Jonathon Alter once years ago who, writing in Newsweek, bemoaned the fact that there was no civil rights movement to galvanize the young people of the day. Just the sorry animal rights movement.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

But they also haven't made a moral choice to not use animals. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. My dogs eat vegan dog food. They don't have collars made from animals. To say they are vegans is odd to me, though I have done that as the distinction is lost on most people and for the sake of a swift message it does the job.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I especially like "justice" because it forces you to ask: "Is it morally right to enslave sentient nonhumans, rape them, take their babies and their lives on your own time and profit from them?" Tags: Activism Ethics Language. I was thinking of naming my son Justice but that might be a bit burdensome for him. Is it fair? Is it just ?

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

Dolphins are so smart that scientists think they should be treated as "non-human persons" and as such it is "morally unacceptable" to use or kill them. The entire discussion, I fear, will be about comparing dolphins to humans and the more human-like they are, the more intelligent they are, and the more worthy of moral consideration they are.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Is it purely a matter of months or years for you? Do you discuss veganism or environmentalism frequently?

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Animal Person

APRIL 30, 2009

The good ones are morally superior to the bad ones because they don't eat humans. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. There are good vampires and bad vampires. The good ones have chosen not to "feed" on humans, but the bad ones haven't. The good ones eat only animals, which apparently isn't a big deal.

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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

APRIL 1, 2010

It moves society closer to the view that all forms of speciesist exploitation--from dog breeding to commercial fishing--are morally wrong (151). Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism. We must rethink what we were taught in school, on the playground and at home.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

I mean, where do they get their morals from? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Veganism is too fringe for me, and I'm pretty sure you have to be a Communist, or at least a Socialist, to be a vegan. And I don't think vegans believe in God, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't believe in God. How do they know what's right?

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

Wrong and right are less useful and more fluid in language, but they're not in morality. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. Do you want people to stop using animals? If so, helping people examine their relationship to sentient nonhumans should be your priority. Your belief about the rights of other sentients won't change.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

It's even more offensive than the condescension of believers, who are praying for poor me and my pointless life sans morality. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. I keep #atheism streaming on Tweetdeck and it's embarrassing to read some of the vitriol toward believers.

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film Language. There's no remotely vegan or even vegetarian (though I'm not even sure what the latter would look like) message. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language ALF Animal Agriculture Alliance Animal Rights Animal welfare ELF HSUS PeTA SHAC Vegan education veganism. Besides, is the "modern" veal crate something to be proud of?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2007

Some, such as my niece's Tag, are utterly spoiled. Inequality per se is morally irrelevant. In terms of welfare (i.e., overall well-being), there is great inequality among dogs. Some dogs have their basic needs satisfied, but little more. Once we create this floor, who cares whether some dogs are above it? What's important is welfare.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. 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. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. It can be argued instead that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent or approval to the present situation, that the only way to be true to one’s moral conviction that the present treatment of animals is inhumane is not to eat meat.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. Serious examination of the national funding paradigm and how it contributes to the conservation choices made on both federal and state levels.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism.

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