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 Stories About: animal welfare AND biodiversity AND environmental movement
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What top environmental orgs have to say about animal welfare
They don't ignore it |
Jason D Scorse |
05 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| In order to further elucidate the role of animal welfare issues in environmentalism, let us examine mission statements from some of the top environmental organizations in the world. Let's start with the first line of the mission statement from the World Wildlife Fund: 'Protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species.' Notice that WWF talks about protecting wild animals independently of whether the ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, endangered species, environmental movement, NRDC, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Environmentalism and animal rights
No environmentalism is complete without consideration of animal welfare |
Jason D Scorse |
07 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Under a previous post on whaling, a commenter pointed out the hypocrisy of those in the environmental movement who oppose whaling while tacitly supporting other forms of animal slaughter no less morally offensive. The commenter made the point that as long as an animal species is being managed sustainably, there is nothing inherently wrong with using that animal, no matter how sentient, in whatever ways we desire. This contention gets at a key weakness in the envir ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, environmental movement (all these topics) |
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