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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
U.S. Declares War On Coyotes
Close Up Reports
Department of Interior reinstitutes cruel killing methods
Is Your Pet Safe From Laboratory Experimentation?
Is Your Pet Safe From Laboratory Experimentation?
Close Up Reports
Researchers still claim need for shelter animals as test subjects
Horse Racing And Drug Abuse: Untangling The Issues Involved, Dana Murphy
Horse Racing And Drug Abuse: Untangling The Issues Involved, Dana Murphy
Equines Collection
Some time during mid-january, hearings on a new bill, intended to stop the misuse of drugs in racehorses, will be held in the U.S. Senate. The Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) wholeheartedly supports the bill and, in fact, worked with the American Horse Protection Association as one of the co-authors of its specific provisions. But to many sectors of the racing industry, the bill is anathema. They believe that enactment of this legislation will surely spell financial ruin for the racetracks of America, given the costs that will be entailed in foregoing the alleged benefits of drugs, and in …
A Strategy For Dog-Owner Education (Response), Ian Dunbar
A Strategy For Dog-Owner Education (Response), Ian Dunbar
Pets Collection
I have read with interest the response by Graham Henderson of the Toronto Humane Society (lnt J Stud Anim Prob 2(6):305-309, 1981). I agree with many of his statements and am pleased that he, in turn, agreed with most of mine, although at first, this was not entirely apparent. In fact, I found Mr. Henderson's letter to be somewhat confusing, and it contained a number of inaccuracies and contradictions. So, please bear with me if I go into some detail to try to unravel the confusion.
Updating The British Cruelty To Animals Act Of 1876: Can The Center Hold?, Judith E. Hampson
Updating The British Cruelty To Animals Act Of 1876: Can The Center Hold?, Judith E. Hampson
Laws and Legislation Collection
Long experience with unsuccessful attempts by British animal welfare groups to promote private members' bills for reform or rep I a cement of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act (Viet. C. 77, 1876) has convinced reformists that achieving this kind of change by lobbying Parliament may be impossible. It was for this reason that a small reformist group- spearheaded by the ex-chairman of the Labour Party, Lord Houghton, and an eminent surgeon, the late Lord Platt- was formed and drafted reform proposals in a document widely known as the Houghton/Piatt Memorandum (paper submitted to the Home Secretary, 1976). This report …
The Oxford Vegetarians - A Personal Account, Peter Singer
The Oxford Vegetarians - A Personal Account, Peter Singer
Human Health Collection
People coming together more or less by accident can have a catalytic effect on each other, so that each achieves more than he or she would have done alone. The Bloomsbury Group--G.E. Moore, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster, J.M. Keynes, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey and others--is a famous example. It would be immodest to suggest that the group of vegetarians who were together in Oxford from 1969 to about 1971 can compare with these illustrious figures; yet if the animal liberation movement ever succeeds in transforming our attitudes to other species, the Oxford Vegetarians may one day …
The Judeo-Christian Tradition And The Human/Animal Bond, James A. Rimbach
The Judeo-Christian Tradition And The Human/Animal Bond, James A. Rimbach
Human and Animal Bonding Collection
This paper surveys the role of animal imagery in the literature of the Old Testament and in post-biblical Jewish literature, discusses biblical materials that speak to the relation of humankind to animals, and assesses the subsequent use of these traditions to support or negate specific attitudes toward the natural environment.
Hsus Veal Campaign Takes Off
Close Up Reports
Milk-fed calves the focus of national public-education campaign
Attitudes Toward Animal Suffering: An Exploratory Study, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite
Attitudes Toward Animal Suffering: An Exploratory Study, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
A total of 302 undergraduates in the social sciences and the humanities, at two Australian universities, were given a questionnaire designed to explore public attitudes toward animal suffering. The results, though preliminary, strongly suggest that attitudes may be in great part supportive of animal welfare and animal rights. However, as reflected in the answers to the questionnaire, actual behavior does not always follow suit. The recommendation is made that the animal welfare/animal rights movement should perhaps place more emphasis on raising people's awareness of the inconsistencies between their attitudes toward animals and their behavior concerning them.
Unnecessary Suffering: Definition And Evidence, Frank Hurnik, Hugh Lehman
Unnecessary Suffering: Definition And Evidence, Frank Hurnik, Hugh Lehman
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
Although it is possible to formulate stronger moral principles than "animals should not be made to suffer unnecessarily," there are significant grounds for doubting these stronger principles. But the principle that underlies the dictum regarding unnecessary suffering is generally recognized as valid, since denial of it implies that we can do whatever we want with animals, a conclusion that is usually considered unacceptable. A determination of whether any particular instance of suffering is necessary or unnecessary must be based on an analysis of both the seriousness of the purpose of the act that involves pain in animals, and its relative …
The Changing Concept Of Animals As Property, Vincent P. Mccarthy
The Changing Concept Of Animals As Property, Vincent P. Mccarthy
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
Enforced and maintained by a legal superstructure that regulated every aspect of a black [slave's] social, political, economic, and religious life, his property status continued until the middle of the nineteenth century when Congress passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which overturned the Dred Scott decision and recognized that a black human being had legally protectible rights.
There are some signs in recent legal decisions that a similar evolution in the status of animals is taking place: judges are beginning to draw distinctions between animals and property.
But can we ever expect that the courts will …
0370: Richard O. Comfort Papers, 1962-1982, Marshall University Special Collections
0370: Richard O. Comfort Papers, 1962-1982, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
Marshall University professor of sociology and anthropology; papers consist primarily of secondary material regarding rural sociology and Appalachian topics.