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Dear Colleagues: Making society feel more comfortable about animal exploitation and encouraging consumption are more often than not an explicit goal of animal welfare campaigns and organizations. For example, many of the large animal advocacy groups in the United States and Britain are involved in promoting labeling schemes under which the flesh or products of […]
Dear Colleagues: This morning’s AOL News carried a story, PETA’S Euthanasia Rates Have Critics Fuming. The story states that PETA: euthanizes over 90 percent of the dogs and cats relinquished to its headquarters in Norfolk, Va. In 2009, PETA euthanized 2,301 dogs and cats — 97 percent of those brought in — and adopted only […]
Dear Colleagues: It is important to understand that there are significant differences among those who regard themselves as vegans. One important difference is between those who maintain that veganism is merely a way of reducing suffering, and those who maintain that it is a fundamental commitment to justice, nonviolence, and a recognition of the moral […]
Dear Colleagues: In response to my comments (1,2) about the Johnny Weir matter and to my general comment on single-issue campaigns, some have suggested that if the Johnny Weir matter is a single-issue campaign, then all campaigns, including efforts to promote adoption/rescue, sanctuaries, and even veganism are single issue-campaigns. This suggestion reveals a profound lack […]
Dar Colleagues: From an article, The Rise of Dog Identity Politics, in New York Magazine For Singer, and for Newkirk, bestiality is not, in all circumstances, prohibited. “If it isn’t exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong,” she has said. Singer, you will recall, argued a few years back that there can be mutually […]
Dear Colleagues: It was reported yesterday that the American figure skater, Johnny Weir, has decided not to add white fox to the left shoulder of his free skate costume after he received “‘hate mail and death threats’ from animal rights activists.” Some animal advocates are calling Weir’s decision a “victory.” I find this puzzling. First, […]
Dear Colleagues: Victor Schonfeld, director of the influential 1982 film, The Animals Film, followed up his two-part BBC World Service program, One Planet: Animals and Us, with an editorial, The Five Fatal Flaws of Animal Activism, in the Guardian, one of the leading U.K. newspapers. Schonfeld once again made clear that the mainstream movement had […]
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Dear Colleagues: In Ingrid Newkirk’s attempt to deal with Victor Schonfeld’s powerful essay, Five Fatal Flaws of Animal Activism, Newkirk tried to defend welfare reform in the following way: For those who decry gradualism, the practical philosopher Peter Singer would ask, “Would you prefer to live in the horror you’re in, bred to grow seven […]
Dear Colleagues: In 2007, I wrote an essay in response to PETA’s State of the Union Undress for 2008. PETA has now done a State of the Union Undress for 2010, this time featuring the full frontal nudity of a woman of color—all “for the animals,” of course. PETA ends this video with a quote […]
Dear Colleagues: For two decades now, I have argued that using sexism and misogyny supposedly to promote animal rights is a very bad idea. Perpetuating the commodification of women is not only inherently immoral but will do nothing to change social thinking about the commodification of nonhumans. PETA has been doing various versions of the […]
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