Posts Tagged ‘Animals’

Animal Cruelty in All its Forms

Browsing through the Humane Society’s video channel on YouTube, I wanted to share the videos that I found.  Animals have rights, too, and their suffering needs to have more attention.
Animal Hoarding

Horse Drawn Carriages in NYC

Horse Tripping

Dogfighting

Factory Farming and Christianity
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Seal Hunting in Canada

When talking about animal cruelty, few can forget the clubbing of baby seals that occured during commercial seal hunting.  This was ended about 25 years ago.  Now, Canada is reinstituting the program, allowing seals to be hunted again for their fur.  There are restrictions, of course, such as humane hunting practices, but according to activist [...]

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News This Week

Well, obviously the biggest news this week is that Barack Obama is the new president-elect.  Here’s a few articles about that: Talking Points Memo, NY Times, NY Times on the future, Fox News, Reuters, CNN International, Huffington Post, Associated Press, BBC, eTaiwan News, China Daily, Deutsche Welle, World Politics Review, 
Just to mix it up a bit, [...]

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An Argument for Vegetarianism

With the idea of a moose-hunting, wolf-killing, good ol’ gal in the White House, I’d like to discuss why I’m a vegetarian.  There are a lot of reasons that I’ve done it personally, but let me first say that I’m not against the idea of eating meat itself.  We are carnivores by evolutionary design and [...]

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Wolves, Again

Yes, this is another post about wolves.  I just can’t help it!  It’s my thesis topic and there’s so much happening with them right now!
As you probably already know either from your own research or earlier posts, wolves were recently taken off the endangered species list in two states: Montana and Idaho.  This happened in March [...]

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Apparently, I’m NOT a Felon!

Soooo, my background check finally went through yesterday and I can now use government computers!  HOORAY!  And just in time for Endangered Species Day!!
I would like to make a special post for this day that, for once, doesn’t focus on me.  The idea that animals could go extinct is actually a pretty new idea, and [...]

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