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 Stories About: animal welfare AND environmental movement
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Ducks per gallon
Tar sands are hardly 'environmentally responsible' |
Josh Dorner |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Alberta's tar sands got yet another huge black eye this week when as many as 500 ducks died after simply landing on a giant pond full of highly toxic oil sands tailings. Only five were said to have survived their toxic plunge. A member of a Canadian environmental watchdog group described the water found in the ponds as follows: Drinking a glass of water from a tailings pond would be like drinking a diluted glass of oil or gasoline. Whether the bitumen is cooked ... |
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| Topics: Alberta, animal welfare, energy, environmental movement, international politics, oil sands, politics (all these topics) |
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PETA's dogma is all bark and no bite
Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians |
Grist |
14 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This is a guest essay from Alex Roth, a financial analyst, attorney, and environmentalist in Washington, D.C. Matt Prescott, a spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, asserted last month that 'you just cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist.' PETA's pronouncement is part of a cooperative campaign among a number of animal-rights groups. Their message is that meat production exacerbates global warming. PETA will lead the charge by dispatching an ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, environmental movement, food, messaging, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics) |
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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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So, environmentalists support whaling?
If environmentalism doesn't include animal welfare, why not? |
Jason D Scorse |
13 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Over the past couple of weeks, I have tried to make what is essentially a straightforward case that environmentalism at its core is about respecting life and that separating this from our behavior towards individual living beings doesn't make much sense. Since many environmentalists reject this notion and insist that environmentalism only includes preserving biodiversity and promoting resource sustainability, this suggests that one of the defining elements of environm ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, environmental movement (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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