animal rights

This question is already addressed to some extent in a Travis thread. It had not been obvious to me that buying purebred dogs might be morally wrong. But that's what some animal rights activists are basically saying. By creating a market for dogs that have been inbred in order to express certain...

Two fairly important and certainly much-read and reported opinion articles. The latter pretty much jumps on the former's bandwagon. Washington post article, google as need be National review article, google as need be They make mildly good cases but do so without strict accordance to good...

I thought we needed another thread following up on the incest thread and the necrophilia thread (YMMV), in which we can chew the fat, as it were, about the subject of zoophilia. Should it be banned everywhere? Or, alternatively, is cross-species love an unfairly maligned activity that could...

First, my own background. I'm a cat lover. I work at an animal rescue. I've been taking care of cats for 20 years now and I can't imagine my life without them. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to them, and if anyone were to ever hurt them, I would want that individual to be harshly...

As some of you know over the weekend my beloved cat, Simon, was shot and killed by savages unknown. It is currently a matter of investigation by law enforcement. While I was in the process of burying the single most affectionate cat I ever had the pleasure of knowing someone brought up the idea...

In the past, I would have never thought about asking a question like this.. How much is human life much more important than other animals` life? I assume that we would all agree that the life of one human being is more valuable than the life of a dog or a cat. But what about the life of one...

This thread is started as a result of discussions here and here, in which Desi made comments regarding animal rights. Here are the relevant posts: and While I sympathize with such arguments, I disagree with them...they seek to depict an equivalency that, in my opinion, just doesn't exist...

This has to qualify as one of the weirdest wills ever: Ingrid Newkirk's Unique Will I Don't know about US law, but some of her instructions for the disposal of her body would be ruled illegal in the UK.

Since this is the elephant in the room on the foie gras thread, I thought I would start a thread on the merits of vegetarianism and veganism versus meat eating. I will start the discussion and hopefully we can critically think on some issues in this area. I am a meat eater but I am also a...

Joe the Plumber's watchful eye has never let us down yet. While we were out trying to keep America safe from this Obamanation, look what happened: All this right under our noses, too! Well, I never!1!!

Unless you are a vegan then it is unlikely that you give animals the same moral rights as humans. Bestiality is Illegal. Necrophilia is also Illegal. However having sex with a ham sandwich is totally fine. I would assert that if it is okay to kill and eat animals then they do not have moral...

(first of all I don’t mean to be flaming, just discuss nicely) I guess most people here believe in the golden rule… meaning that they generally will avoid doing to others what they don’t want others doing to them. I also guess most people here believe in evolution… meaning they believe that...

The "active" ingredient in the homeopathic remedy Oscillococcinum is duck liver. Of course, there are no molecules of duck liver remaining after the dilution. Is it therefore acceptable for vegetarians to take? What about those who are against killing animals for medicinal purposes?

PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution" What determines whether an animal is worthy of our compassion and protection, or mere annoying vermin to be exterminated? Is it size? Endangeredness as a species? Intelligence? Cuteness? Utility to man? Danger to man? Why are cats more worthy...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2009-02-09-peta-westminster-kkk-protest_N.htm?csp=25&RM_Exclude=Juno This actually happened last week, but I forgot to post it then. The only thing I can say about it is that they were very lucky they had police there to protect them, considering they were...

A vegetarian friend and I were talking, and we agreed that while most Americans probably scoff at the idea of "animal rights," even while they probably tacitly endorse rights for non-humans on some basic level. I'm sure the same holds true for most of the rest of the world as well. People are...

A true head scratcher More fun than a barrel of monkees!! Should apes be treated as equals? Koko is supposed to have an I.Q. of 76.

While I enjoy her site, she has a link to "support animal rights" that takes you right to PETA's website. So, since I watched Penn&Teller's BS episode about PETA, I decided to write her: I greatly enjoy your site as it shows just how illogical fundies think. However, I have to wonder why...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ape_Project

http://www.nysehostage.com/ heres an article i found about an animal rights group that has been terrorizing wall street brokers that deal with companies that do animal testing(thats just a summary quick and to the point) Now, why is it that if you don't like what a company is doing you have to...

This might be a philosophy topic rather than current events or politics but this is where the debate on this subject has been the past while. So, why not animal rights? How about this for an idea - the notion of rights are ultimately descended from selfishness and self-interest. "Do unto...

http://entertainment.excite.com/article/id/46249|entertainment|10-16-2003%3A%3A20%3A28|reuters.html I guess she thinks they are doing something unnatural to their chickens. Maybe it has something to do with artificially enhancing the size of their chicken breasts? :D (I know it should have...

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/6902512.htm ...full article I always chuckle when I hear a communist talk about fighting oppression. It would be like a KKK member fighting racism.