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• Reading the News, Thinking about Charlie

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Toys, Food And Diet, Charlisms, Living Arrangements, Health, Neuroscience, Animal Rights, Animals, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dora The Explorer, Education, Elmo, Family, House, New York Times, News, Newspaper, Obesity, Octagon, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  that I worry more about the rights of autistic persons than of animals—well, I am a vegetarian, Charlie is most definitely not—-Temple Grandin is quoted regarding the influence of animal rights activists on changes in how farm animals are housed and cared for. How would Charlie fare in a round house, or rather, an octagon? (It would

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• The New Animal Rights Tactic to Suppress Research - lawsuits [denialism blog]

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights Extremism

  reported violations of the animal welfare act. I'm sure this is as noble as their attempts to smear McDonalds, or sue the dairy industry or their lawsuits against fastfood chains for serving "carcinogenic" grilled foods, or calling school lunches weapons of mass destruction for containing meat, and on and on. Does anyone think this is a

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• Brzezinski Reverses on Villaraigosa Story: 'That Story's Important'

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:42 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights, Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Dc Madam, Double Standards, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Media Bias Debate, Political Scandals, Sexuality, Antonio Villaraigosa, David Vitter, Joe Scarborough, John Ridley, Mika Brzezinski, Mirthala Salina, Morning Joe

  Yesterday I wrote a piece about reporter Mika Brzezinski's handling of a story that reflected a political double standard on her part. While hosting MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for the vacationing Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski aired a video of a female reporter chasing after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Before she could catch up with

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• The Language of Liberation

  Published: August 5, 2007, 1:29 am

  Tags: Animal Liberation, Animal Intelligence, Animal Rights

  own stupidity. Quite simply, animals' rights are not necessitated by their worth to us. Such "rights" would only be a reflection of our own vanities. True rights for animals--all animals--are rooted in their interests, such as the enjoyment of life and liberty. These are rights that we take for granted, but which are denied other animals every

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• TAfA post-conference breakdown

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:33 pm

  Tags: Events, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare

  weekend's Taking Action for Animals conference in D.C. to report back with their thoughts on it.Well, the fine bloggers (mostly Jennifer, but Joel jumped in today) over at AnimalBlawg went one better and have been posting thorough reactions to various aspects of the conference, confirming my worst suspicions, and raising excellent points that

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• Pet the dog, eat the cow: Our confused relationship with animals

  Published: July 28, 2007, 6:21 pm

  Tags: Animal Ethics, Animal Rights, Dogfighting

  when it comes to animals. While the philosophy professor somewhat misunderstands animal rights, Sartwell does ask readers to consider animals' value beyond our own interests in them: We need to decide: (a) Do animals count? and (b) How, exactly, not as dwarfish, or four-legged, or stupid people, but as real things whose existence is,

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• Mel B's got a keeper

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:12 am

  Tags: Stephen Belafonte, Mel B, Nicole Contreras, Domestic Violence, Animal Rights

  It's turning out that Stephen Belafonte is something of a charmer - he's "chosen not to contest" charges of domestic violence against his last wife, Nicole Contreras (in other words, not even having the balls to admit what he'd done) and now it turns out he beat a duck to death with a brick. Oh, and he's never quite got round to paying the fine

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• TV host abuses animals to show negative effects of animal abuse

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Abuse, Animal Abuse, Animal Rights, Animalabuse, Animalrights, Zoo

  why they shouldn't abuse animals at the zoo. However, in doing so he or she inflicts actual pain on real animals. If that isn't sick enough, you can clearly hear children laughing at the host's antics throughout the piece. At the end of the segment another host explains to the children that they should learn from these mistakes, and

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• First Images of Daniel Craig on Set for 'Bond 22'

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: Animal Rights, Animalrights, Bond, Bond 22, Bond22, Daniel Craig, Danielcraig, Horses, James Bond, Jamesbond, Palio De Siena, Paliodesiena

  "involving either people or animals" that takes place during the race. So filming took place yesterday but the scenes with the actors will be filmed separately and inserted at a later date. How does the race factor into the film? Well, Commanderbond is calling this a spoiler, so heads up. If you like to go into movies completely fresh, you might

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• Liberation, human and animal

  Published: August 20, 2007, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Andrew Linzey, Animal Rights Issues, Social Ethical Issues, Theology Amp Amp Faith, Religion Society

  between violence against animals and violence against humans. Clearly it’s not a matter of cruelty to animals causing violence against human beings in a straightforward way. Rather, as Linzey says, “cruelty to animals is one of a cluster of potential or actual characteristics held in common by those who commit violence or

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• Faith on the farm

  Published: August 22, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Animal Rights Issues, Religion Society, Economy, Food, Environment

  humane treatment of animals, and fair treatment of farm workers. It’s always tough to know how widespread the phenomena discussed in these kinds of “trend” stories actually are, but it’s heartening to think that “environmentalism” is no longer a dirty word even among some very conservative religious

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• Libertarians and animal rights

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Animal Rights Issues, Social Ethical Issues, Libertarianism, Politics, Environment

  for libertarian style rights is by no means incompatible with concern for animal rights. What Clark suggests is, in essence, that we can’t assume that the differences between humans and animals are so great that the former always have a full complement of rights while the latter have none: First, it is implausible to claim that the

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• DMX's dogs dead

  Published: August 25, 2007, 5:52 am

  Tags: Dog, Dmx, Animal Rights

  following a tip-off about animal cruelty. Other dogs were taken into care:[Sheriff Joe Arpaio] Arpaio said the deputies who served a search warrant at the home Friday seized 12 pit bulls tied up on the property and took them to an old jail that has been converted into an animal shelter.Deputies found the buried dogs when they dug up the back

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• Foxx takes side against hounds

  Published: August 25, 2007, 4:37 pm

  Tags: Michael Vick, Crime, Racism, Animal Rights, Jamie Foxx

  date by not only defending animal torturer Michael Vick, but also suggesting that it's a black thing: "It's a cultural thing, I think. Most brothers didn't know that, you know. I used to see dogs fighting in the neighbourhood all the time. I didn't know that was Fed time. So, Mike probably just didn't read his handbook on what not to do as a

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• From animal rights to cosmic democracy

  Published: August 26, 2007, 4:59 pm

  Tags: Religion Society, Social Ethical Issues, Animal Rights Issues, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Theology, Politics

  Individualists, and some animal rights proponents like Tom Regan, have been wary of what they call “environmental fascism” that seems to threaten to subordinate the interests of the individual to the collective. We sometimes see this tension between environmentalists and animal rights people: environmentalists are mainly concerned

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