What’s the difference between eating plants and animals?

February 13 2012 by admin in ANIMAL ETHICS, FOOD ANIMALS, PHILOSOPHY, PLANTS |No Comments
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BY KIM BARTLETT, Animal People

Broccoli dish: where do we draw the line?

A common objection posed by meat-eaters to considering a vegetarian diet is that “plants have feelings” which may be comparable to the feelings of animals, or that the result of a vegetarian diet is for more plants to die than animals and thus the net amount of killing is somehow equal.

While it is essential to realize that these arguments are virtually always made by people as a way to dismiss the idea of not eating animals without having to seriously consider the moral advantage of a vegetarian diet, the vegetarian advocate must be prepared to respond to these objections.  There are three main points to understand. Continue reading »

Australian use of risky drug may drive Indonesian cut in livestock imports

February 12 2012 by admin in ANIMAL BUSINESS, ANIMAL CRUELTY, BOVINES & CATTLE, FACTORY FARMING, FOOD ANIMALS, INTERNATIONAL, JAN-FEB 2012 |No Comments
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

JAKARTA,  MELBOURNE-- Australian cattle and sheep exporters barely had time to anticipate ramped up live animal shipments to Islamic nations,  under new protocols announced on October 21,  2011 by agriculture minister Joe Ludwig,  when word came from Jakarta that Indonesia is likely to accept barely half as many live cattle from Australia as were landed in 2011. Continue reading »

Puppy millers move from malls to web sites

February 12 2012 by admin in ANIMAL BUSINESS, ANIMAL CRUELTY, ANIMAL DEFENSE ORGS, CATS & DOGS, JAN-FEB 2012 |No Comments
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

WASHINGTON D.C.,  NEW YORK,  LOS ANGELES–A concerted effort by humane organizations to discourage mall sales of puppy mill pups appears to be succeeding at possible cost of driving the traffic to web sites and social media. Mobilizing in response through web sites and social media, the Humane Society of the U.S. and the American SPCA on December 29, 2011 jointly announced that the USDA “plans to improve oversight of commercial dog breeders by issuing rules to regulate those breeders who sell over the Internet.” Continue reading »

13 nations miss the European Union deadline for phasing out battery cages

February 12 2012 by admin in ANIMAL DEFENSE ORGS, ANIMAL ETHICS, EU, JAN-FEB 2012, THE LAW, THE WORLD |No Comments
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

BRUSSELS,  DUBLIN–Allowed 13 years to phase out battery caging for laying hens,  egg farmers in 13 European Union nations nonetheless missed the January 1,  2012 deadline for compliance with the 1999 EU battery cage ban.

In Ireland,  where farmers were mostly compliant,  “the Irish Farmers Association reported to the media that up to 100,000 birds would have to be slaughtered ‘early,’ as 10 farmers did not have the required cages to comply with new legislation,”  e-mailed Vegan Education Centre of Ireland diet and lifestyle coach Sandra Higgins to the U.S.-based organization United Poultry Concerns. Continue reading »

NIH to quit funding new chimp studies– but broke past pledges

February 12 2012 by admin in ANIMAL MEDICINE, BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, JAN-FEB 2012 |No Comments
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By Merritt Clifton, Animal People
From ANIMAL PEOPLE Jan-Feb 2012

Courtesy The New York Times

WASHINGTON D.C.–Deferring without delay to recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council,  issued just hours before,  the National Institutes of Health on December 15,  2011 suspended making new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees.  The NIH also agreed,  for the first time,  to apply uniform scientific and ethical criteria to evaluating chimp studies.

Reported the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council,  “Recent advances in alternate research tools have rendered chimpanzees largely unnecessary as research subjects.” Continue reading »

Canada returns to the live export trade

February 12 2012 by admin in ANIMAL BUSINESS, ANIMAL CRUELTY, BOVINES & CATTLE, INTERNATIONAL, JAN-FEB 2012 |No Comments
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:


What a testament to our species insensitivity that we conduct these operations daily
with nary a voice standing up in righteous protest?

OTTAWA--The Middle Eastern live cattle market became more
competitive,  and pressuring the global cattle export industry to
shift toward shipping frozen carcasses became more difficult,  with
the December 20,  2011 resumption of Canadian participation,  after
an eight-year hiatus. Continue reading »

No Sri Lanka dog killing

February 12 2012 by admin in ANIMAL DEFENSE ORGS, CATS & DOGS, JAN-FEB 2012 |No Comments
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2012:

COLOMBO–Sri Lanka health minister Maithripala Sirisena on
Monday,  January 9,  2012 beat a quick retreat from an announcement
he reportedly made via the Swarnavahini television network the
preceding Friday night that the government would resume killing dogs,
after a five-year hiatus. Continue reading »

Letters (Jan-Feb 2012)

February 12 2012 by admin in JAN-FEB 2012, LETTERS |No Comments
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

LETTERS

Marti Kheel

My late sister Marti Kheel’s quest for answers began long ago
when as a child, the adult world caused a severing of her heart and
mind during a mass slaughter and plucking of chickens that was the
activity of the day at her summer camp.  In her own words:
“In retrospect, I think that two forms of violence occurred
that day-the extreme violence directed against the chickens and the
internal violence toward my own nature and my own feelings of
connection to other animals.   What happened that day is that my
initial feelings of empathy for the animals under attack became
suppressed and anaesthetized.  It took me many years to start the
process of reclaiming those feelings and in essence,  that has become
my life’s work-to reclaim those initial feelings of kinship with
other animals and to help others do so as well.” Continue reading »

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