Showing posts with label animal rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal rights. Show all posts
Thursday, October 06, 2011

Speciesism at Home

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I've been following the activities of a local chapter of a trap-neuter-return (TNR) group called ca-r-ma . At some point a few years ag...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Meaninglessness of "Welfare" and Uselessness of Single-Issue Campaigns

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A reader sent me a link yesterday morning to an article from The Vancouver Sun ( "Animal rights group targets humane society's mea...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

PETA and HSUS Tag-Team to Take on Pizza Industry? Hardly!

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The trade website Pizza Marketplace ran a piece yesterday about how supposed "animal rights" groups PETA and HSUS are tag-teami...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Veganism and Animal Rights in Online Media

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Some bits and blurbs I've stumbled across online while catching up on internet goings on after a brief holiday hiatus: Last week, Gary L...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Being an Abolitionist Vegan in an Omni World

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This post is meant to ask questions rather than provide answers. It's meant to stimulate discussion rather than to divide. I write it ...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

On Our Apparently Complicated Inability to Avoid Stereotypes

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A ctually, the inability doesn't really seem to be that complicated a thing. As humans, we lump everything into categories for the sake ...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Should Vegans Endorse Meatless Monday?

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Over the course of the past year, I've read about and have occasionally referenced the hot trend that's currently being promoted by ...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

"Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare: Making the Case"

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These are from a talk given by Professor Gary L. Francione on May 11, 2008 in the Brighton Town Lodge, outside of Rochester, NY. Here are Pa...
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"Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare: Making the Case" - Second Half

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These are from a talk given by Professor Gary L. Francione on May 11, 2008 in the Brighton Town Lodge, outside of Rochester, NY. Here are Pa...

New Updates at Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach

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I linked to one of Professor Gary L. Francione's recent blog updates in a post below but wanted to draw attention to them in a separate ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Supply and Demand: Enabling the Cycle of Slaughter of Nonhumans

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I read some blog posts earlier today by someone who'd commented here recently in a discussion concerning the difference between welfari...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Gary L. Francione's Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights

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I've had a couple of vegan friends and readers unfamiliar with Professor Gary L. Francione's work email me over the past few weeks w...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Real Key to Protecting Animal Rights

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I haven't had enough coffee today to sort out and tone down the many different things that popped into my head this morning after spyi...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

A Rant and Rave About the Rise in Pro Bono Work for Animal Rights

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I read an article this morning whose title started off making me feel hopeful. A few lines in, I was then left me mired in a desire for cl...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

What Tofurky Day Means for Animal Rights

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With Thanksgiving being just around the corner for my American friends, I've been doing some nosing around through some of the articles ...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Animal Ethics

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For those of you interested in animal ethics (animal rights, animal welfare, animal abolitionism -- whatever), I wanted to bring to your att...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

So they're sentient. What next?

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I stumbled upon a seemingly thoughtful and thought-provoking piece this morning on the website for the Scotland on Sunday paper. The articl...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Spain to extend rights to apes

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This is huge. According to this Reuters blurb , the proposed legislation which would, in effect, comply with the Great Ape Project's De...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

PETA and KFC-Canada -- Gary L. Francione`s take on it

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The PETA / KFC-Canada story has generated a lot of discussion in veg*an circles over the internet this past week. I've gotten involved...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Canada's shameful seal hunt and the forthcoming EU ban

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T hose of you following this year's Canadian seal hunt are already aware that the anti-sealing Sea Shepherd Conservation Society...