Animal Cruelty

Here’s What’s Wrong With Vivisection:

Posted on August 21, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Specieism |

By Gary Yourofsky Simulposted with ADAPTT Humanitarian and British author George Bernard Shaw summed up vivisection best when he once proclaimed, “Those who won’t hesitate to vivisect, won’t hesitate to lie about it as well.” Vivisection is the act of cutting, drugging, burning, blinding, shocking, addicting, shooting, freezing, infecting and surgically mutilating live animals. Vivisection [...]

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Peter Young & Walter Bond Speak Out

Posted on August 19, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Humanitarian Issues, Specieism |

I don’t think those critics are relevant because they don’t do anything. And I think in activism, you forfeit your right to have an opinion about what others are doing when you don’t do anything yourself….

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Wearing Baby Sheep?

Posted on August 6, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Specieism |

I was looking at some clothing this morning and saw a gorgeous vest from one of my favorite designers made in “Lambskin.” I had a thought – Lambskin:  Definition: a. A young sheep, especially one that is not yet weaned.  I was wondering if I would be okay wearing the skin of a baby sheep [...]

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The University of Kansas Medical Center has become known for violating the Animal Welfare Act….

Posted on August 6, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty |

According to the annual report filed with the USDA by the University of Kansas Medical Center, this facility experiments on and/or holds captive about 150 primates per year, a relatively small amount. The report which contains this statistic is a bland one page document which belies the cruel reality that it represents.

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Jason Miller ⓋAugust 1, 2010 at 9:13pm Subject: Crusade to Stop KU Med’s Publicly-Funded Indulgence of Its Fetish with Animal Torture Persists….

Posted on August 2, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Specieism |

Yesterday, twelve of us also took to the streets to educate the public, though in a very different manner than usual. We formed a small caravan of vehicles, adorned them with signs depicting the horrific crimes that KU Med is desperate to keep from public knowledge, and utilized a bullhorn to both draw attention to our signs and to educate further.

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Grizzly vs. Human Attack? You Decide!

Posted on July 30, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Specieism |

Human thought is not the essence of the power. I hope I don’t lose any readers, but I must write about this recent story on CNN. I get very angry listening to human beings sometimes! I was watching the news this morning about the recent mother bear attack on some people in Yellowstone Park. I [...]

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Spiritual determination finds ways to overcome obstacles and adversity

Posted on July 25, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Environment, Health, Specieism |

Posted by thomaspainescorner MLK embodied the immense power that spirituality brings to a social justice movement…. By Jason Miller Preface: While I recognize that there are many atheists in the Animal Rights Movement who adhere to veganism, and that people of many different religions and philosophies advocate and fight for nonhuman animals, my personal spirituality [...]

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New content on TPC….

Posted on July 15, 2010. Filed under: Animal Cruelty, Specieism | Tags: |

Our fatal flaw, both systemically and individually, is our hubris. Our species reeks of arrogance as we presume that the universe revolves around us. We may no longer be geocentric in our beliefs, but we are most certainly human-centric. When our vanity, pleasure, convenience, and desires “necessitate” the holocaust of over 50 billion nonhuman animals each year, moral primitivism is the order of the day.

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