Politics of Animal Protection
Originally written on September 1, 2006, re-posted today to raise more dust ;-)...Posted on October 6, 2008 1:21 AM • 10 Comments •
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Animal Rights:
What a Difference a Century Makes
From a reasonable concern for Animal Welfare by Lewis Carroll to the mean and stupid Animal Rightists of today....Posted on September 27, 2007 9:29 PM • 6 Comments •
Conservatives, Animals and Cruelty
What Archy says... Related......Posted on June 28, 2007 12:32 AM • 1 Comments •
Belgrade Zoo needs to move!
Long time ago, I mentioned here something about the Belgrade Zoo. The power of Google brought a Belgrader, Sonja, to my blog, who alerted me to the dire conditions in which the Zoo is right now and the existence of...Posted on March 27, 2007 2:59 PM • 2 Comments •
Is it really counter-propaganda?
As a follow-up on the whole PETA brouhaha, my astute commenter oneproudaardvark notices that the SOTU-farce ad campaign by PETA is strangely coinciding with the beginning of the trial against PETA for butchering dogs in the back of the truck...Posted on January 29, 2007 11:31 AM • 0 Comments •
I always like it...
.. when someone rips PETA a new one... Added later: Jill and Chris have more (and watch all those disccussions in the comment threads on all three posts!). Added even later: Archy has a great analysis of this....Posted on January 27, 2007 9:57 PM • 4 Comments •
So, just inject the humans right away and see what happens?
Just How Useful Are Animal Studies To Human Health?: Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study online in the...Posted on December 18, 2006 8:32 AM • 1 Comments •
On the Orca that attacked its trainer
Dave explains the incident and gives some excellent background information way beyond what the media reported....Posted on December 2, 2006 2:55 PM • 1 Comments •
That is what I'd like them to do with my body one day...
Composting May Be Alternative In Wake Of Horse Slaughter Bill: The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, making its way from the U.S. House to the Senate, could leave thousands of horses with no final resting ground. Composting may be an...Posted on October 14, 2006 11:00 AM • 6 Comments •
No More Animal Rights!
As Nick says: Interestingly, as opponents of science (.....) continue to take on increasingly scientific-sounding arguments (....) this study demonstrates that these are only quasi-scientific, manufactured to support a particular viewpoint and not intended to actually communicate new information. I...Posted on October 10, 2006 11:10 PM • 4 Comments •
Politics of Animal Protection
There has been a lot of commentary online about the Inside Higher Ed article about an UCLA primate researcher who quit his research due to being terrorised by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the follow up article about the...Posted on September 1, 2006 11:54 AM • 10 Comments •
Some Thoughts On Use Of Animals In Research And Teaching
In light of the recent cases of researchers quitting animal research under the duress of threats and attacks by Animal Rights groups, e.g., Dr. Ringach at UCLA, this may be a good time to repost this old rant from...Posted on September 1, 2006 10:53 AM • 0 Comments •
Mananimals in the news again
Not just in the USA. Visceral queeziness coupled with religious sentiment coupled with scientific ignorance appears in other parts of the world as well, as in the UK The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, a professional group based in Edinburgh,...Posted on August 11, 2006 10:21 PM • 10 Comments •
Diane Rehm just read my e-mail on air
Are you listening to the show?...Posted on July 24, 2006 11:22 AM • 1 Comments •
Diane Beers to appear on NPR's Diane Rehm show about Animal Rights on Monday
Yesterday, I heard the announcement on NPR for Diane Rehm's Monday show and recoiled in horror as it appeared she used the terms "animal welfare" and "animal rights" interchangeably....Posted on July 22, 2006 8:29 PM • 34 Comments •
