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The Lack of Ethics in Animal Ethics Committees

Like factory farming, animal experimentation is an entrenched practice, one which causes extensive suffering to millions of animals per year despite the…

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Added by Spencer Lo on September 29, 2012 at 4:00 — No Comments

All Volunteer Military? Not If You’re a Dolphin

Both from a strategic and moral standpoint, it is no surprise that when military action is contemplated, governments tend to favor effective tactics involving the least risk to human lives. Even better are effective tactics involving low risk to all human lives. If the goal of the military action is justified, what could be morally problematic with using such means? These widely held notions likely motivated the U.S. Navy’s…

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Added by Spencer Lo on September 28, 2012 at 4:00 — No Comments

What's Wrong with Happy Meat?

My take on the ethics of eating "happy meat."

Suppose animals could be raised humanely, live considerably long lives, and then painlessly killed for food. Would eating such happy creatures be wrong? That question is suggested in a recent article by New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, who answered it in the negative. According to…

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Added by Spencer Lo on September 25, 2012 at 9:30 — 5 Comments

The Art of Killing--for Kids

This is another recent post of mine over at Animal Blawg, about the encouragement of youths to take up hunting.

In our culture, the moral divide between humans and animals is sharp in numerous areas, but perhaps most consciously so in one: the sport of hunting. Since the activity involves consciously deciding to kill another sentient, sensitive being, the issue of inflicting suffering and death cannot be avoided, at least for the hunter. At some point every hunter will inevitably…

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Added by Spencer Lo on September 24, 2012 at 4:57 — 1 Comment

Demand the maximum penalty for NZ seal killer

In December of 2010, Jemaal Peter Roy Large of Wairu Valley is alleged to have beaten 23 seals to death with a galvanised steel pipe.

The dead include 2 bulls, 13 females and 8 pups; some of which were only a few days old. According to the Dept. of Conservation, other live seals also had injuries suggesting that they too had been struck.

These seals were knowingly and willfully beaten to death while they lay sleeping on the beach at night. This blatant, cowardly act of cruelty…

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Added by Pat Dickens on September 17, 2012 at 4:27 — No Comments

If you're vegan and on Facebook ~ Eating Consciously

Reposted from Eating Consciously - by Ed Coffin

If you’re vegan and on Facebook, it’s almost impossible to avoid seeing racist and disgusting statements SUCH AS THESE.  These ones were picked from merely a handful of posts in a matter of minutes.  They’re almost always related to photographs of dogs being slaughtered for meat somewhere in Southeast…

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Added by Billy L on September 5, 2012 at 9:30 — 4 Comments

An Age of Euphemisms

Modern institutions like to euphemize their worst habits, and nowhere is this more evident than in the meat industry. Animals have been reduced from sentient individuals to material commodities that contribute to the production of capital. Hence, they are captured, caged, raised, poached, trapped, skinned, traded, or sold as “exotic” pets or for their fur, body parts, or supposed medicinal value.

The semantics of meat-industry terms is itself revealing. Such terms as “poultry”,…

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Added by Paul Hansen on August 31, 2012 at 4:00 — 7 Comments

Fury over fur

Picture a fox, with its bloody leg mangled in the jaws of a steel jawed trap, tearing ligaments, pulling muscles as it thrashes around in abject terror in a vain attempt to get free.

Picture the fox breaking teeth, lacerating gums as it bites the cold steel that holds it prisoner. Imagine how it must feel for 1 in 3 foxes who will chew their own legs off as a desperate bid to escape, only to die a sad and painful death as a result of infection, blood loss,…

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Added by Pat Dickens on August 30, 2012 at 7:30 — No Comments

Animal Welfare Labeling: A Trojan Horse

In reality, the meat industry is interested NOT in animal welfare, but in maintaining its “market share” or bottom line—and that means substituting euphemistic labeling for true ethical reform and getting anti-cruelty laws compromised. Read this essay by James McWilliams: …

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Added by Paul Hansen on August 30, 2012 at 7:30 — 3 Comments

Tourism in Burma & Thailand threatens Elephant population

It has never been a “level playing field” between humans and wildlife, especially where profit is at stake. The pressures of smuggling, poaching, and abuse continue. Here’s one more example from Thailand.

Added by Paul Hansen on August 26, 2012 at 5:00 — No Comments

“Bear Dancing” eludes Indian authorities

Yet another example (among hundreds) of animal cruelty and oppression. Click on http://www.thepetitionsite.com/216/630/739/bear-dancing-is-cruel-not-cute/?cid=Facebook_petition_bear-dancing and watch the live footage.

Added by Paul Hansen on August 18, 2012 at 16:59 — No Comments

Are environmentalists and animal defenders anti-human, radical, irrational, and fanatical? The Over-reaction of Human Exceptionalists

Dr. Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute in Seattle who directs a newsletter site called “The Human Exceptionalist” (see http://support.discovery.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=4143.0&dlv_id=9642). Smith and his colleagues—understandably—are concerned about “increasing attacks on free will” and the…

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Added by Paul Hansen on August 13, 2012 at 5:00 — 2 Comments

Animal Rights Zone (ARZone)

ARZone exists to help educate vegans and non-vegans alike about the obligations human beings have toward all other animals.  By providing a space for a variety of blog posts, forum discussions, notes, videos and more, ARZone fosters a sense of community among its…

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Added by Carolyn Bailey on July 31, 2012 at 15:52 — No Comments

Conversation With A Stranger ~ Mel Baker

Conversation With A Stranger

Written by Mel Baker

I had a really lovely interaction with a stranger today at the supermarket. I was waiting at the checkout and a really…

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Added by Carolyn Bailey on July 21, 2012 at 17:30 — 3 Comments

JUSTICE FOR THE "KIM HOLLINGSWORTH" HORSES AT LAST!!

A while ago a young lady posted a blog in regards to a lot of horses owned by "KIM HOLLINGSWORTH" in nsw. Well the RSPCA are now seizing those horses!!! Its a great day FOR ANIMAL LOVERS AND ACTIVISTS EVERYWHERE. And its a great day for some of the horses. Being saved after all this time of being grossly neglected by former prostitute KIM HOLLINGSWORTH. So to all those people that gave that young lady who posted the blog a hard time...here is your humble pie served with some egg on your…

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Added by phill mckraken on July 19, 2012 at 19:10 — 55 Comments

Things You Already Believe

 

You already believe you are a good person who would not want to hurt others.

 

You already believe it is better to be helpful and kind whenever you can.…

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Added by Tim Gier on July 18, 2012 at 22:30 — No Comments

Full film please watch and share 'Earthlings'

Click the link below to watch

http://www.earthlings.com/

“A must see for anyone who cares enough to know.” — Woody Harrelson

 

“If I could make everyone in…

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Added by OneCrow on June 27, 2012 at 6:43 — No Comments

World loses species with death of Lonesome George

June 25, 2012

Galapagos National Park Mourns the Loss of Lonesome George, an Icon of Conservation Efforts Worldwide

Lonesome George was the last of his species of giant land Tortoises from Pinta Island. Photo: Reuters Lonesome George was the last of his species of giant land Tortoises from Pinta Island.

Photo:…

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Added by OneCrow on June 27, 2012 at 1:48 — No Comments

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