Critter News

MAY 7, 2009

"There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of Science, as they do now to burning people at the stake in the name of religion." Bigelow, MD.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 16, 2009

The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection. Twain wrote a searing account of an English earl’s behavior on a buffalo hunt (in “Man’s Place in the Animal World”) and wrote an impassioned anti-bullfighting novella (A Horse’s Tale). Interesting. You can buy it here.

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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.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

We acted against Timmel because he is a veterinarian in UC Berkeley's vivisection labs. We would have reduced the Audi to ashes; if not for the fact that tailing him prevented us from grabbing the instruments that would have set his sh*t aflame. But there's always tomorrow.

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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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Critter News

JULY 18, 2009

When Paul Farmer was a medical student, he had to do a vivisection. These brief descriptions are less than 1 percent of the book, but they meant something to me because I've become sensitized to them. 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.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal.

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Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Is evil a label we use when we cannot fathom why someone does (or doesn't do) something? Is evil something you do but not who you are? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway? Is evil an excuse we make for people?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Baird Callicott , "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," Environmental Ethics 2 [winter 1980]: 311-38, at 335-6 [italics in original]) Note from KBJ: My "outrage at vivisection and factory farming" has nothing to do with "the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes."

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. But that's now what happened. Or mute babies?

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Is it possible that videos of open rescue or undercover videos taken of vivisection could be somehow lumped in with snuff and other vile videos and considered unacceptable (and don't think that wouldn't be intentional), therefore taking an important tool away from activists?

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Animal Liberation Front animal rights David Jentsch Jerry Vlasak UCLA vivisection.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2008

They had a direct effect on seventeenth-century behavior as manifested, for example, in the popularity of public vivisections, not as an aid to scientific discovery but simply as a technical display. These teachings, it should be observed, were more than metaphysical speculations.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

But they now turn around the question what is to count as "making animals suffer unnecessarily," whether, for example, vivisection or fox-hunting are, in these terms, morally justifiable. Controversies no doubt remain.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection. Biological warfare against human beings is generally condemned but not biological warfare against animals.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? Is love to diminish inversely as the square of the distance? Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? One thinks also of unborn generations.

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Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

From the site: In the early morning hours of May 18th, four incendiary devices were planted at Scientific Resources International, a supplier of non-humyn primates for use in vivisection labs all over northern Nevada.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 8, 2008

4) are abhorrent acts condemned by the vast majority of animal advocates and the organizations who represent them, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Peggy Cunniff Executive Director National Anti-Vivisection Society Chicago, Aug. 5, 2008 Note from KBJ: Well put!

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

She has no issues with vivisection either. This is a link to a recent scandal at a primate center in Louisiana. link] I don't want to go into details, but it's bad. And it's only one of the few we know about. She supports this.

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