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ANIMAL rights groups have begun a campaign against the dairy industry's treatment of bobby calves. Dairy Australia commissioned a blood-test study which showed that calves deteriorated after 24 hours off feed, she said. Here's the full article from the Weekly Times Now.
No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No No such association was formed on behalf of the ear mites.)
Charles River Labs, a company which develops drugs and conducts contract animal testing, has an atrocious animal rights record, although they deny it of course. They recently moved into China two years ago where they established a toxicology and drug-testing facility in Shanghai.
This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer. The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001. I received an alert from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I do believe they want prestige, tenure, royalties and patent rights. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists. But as far as they are concerned, I am still an animal rights terrorist for the mere fact that I disagree with them.
Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. That's one result.
The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. This, now, is a very practical matter, where all measures we take must be tested empirically on their consequences.
Many of the higher animals at least have appetites, conative urges, and rudimentary purposes, the integrated satisfaction of which constitutes their welfare or good. But it seems to me, nevertheless, that in general, animals are among the sorts of beings of whom rights can meaningfully be predicated and denied.
And people who say they want us to stop using animals, yet whose tactics appear to be in the service of the welfare of animals, can be called "new welfarists." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing. I'm not saying there's anything incorrect about the verbiage.
I don't support the destruction of property or any physical threats against people who harm animals whether through medical testing or through conventional agriculture. It does nothing but make the targets more wedded to their positions and it garners sympathy from the general public. I grew up there. Full story here at the Fresno Bee.
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. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from. Lerner Woodside, Calif., Mr. Steiner rightly rejects this view as morally flawed.
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