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OSPCA v. THS

Thursday, January 28, 2010

For those interested in such things, the OSPCA has been granted a wide range of relief under the Charities Accounting Act with respect to the THS. In effect, this means that the OSPCA controls money and the animals at the THS. (Paragraph 45 is especially chilling.) This is the first legal account of evidence collected [...]

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Bees and Women Compared

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

From Richard Remnant’s 1637 classic, A Discourse or Historie of Bees.

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Remembering Calvin (January 25, 2009)

Monday, January 25, 2010
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Human experimentation for animals?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Apparently all my recent posts relate to re-reading material for lecture. From Piers Beirne’s “For a Nonspeciesist Criminology: Animal Abuse as an Object of Study” (Criminology 37(1): 117-47): Singer’s many exhortations have successfully acquired a large and quite influential following. But it must be said that his act-utilitarianism does not place the liberation of animals [...]

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“Puritan Streak”

Sunday, January 3, 2010

From Michael Pollan’s essay, “An Animal’s Place“: A deep Puritan streak pervades animal rights activists, an abiding discomfort not only with our animality, but with animal’s animality too. This is offered, I think, as a critique–the point being made by a “literary journalist” is often rather obscure, notwithstanding the rather plain prose. The problem, however, [...]

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CFP: Foucault and Animals

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Call For Abstracts: Foucault and Animals Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel (Eds) “The animal in man no longer has any value as the sign of a Beyond; it has become his madness, without a relation to anything but itself; his madness in the state of nature.” “it is a technique of training, of dressage, that [...]

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Remembering Mickey (December 9, 2006)

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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The “Speculative Animal” Event

Saturday, December 5, 2009

What follows is my contribution to the “Speculative Animal” event. Comments are closed here, but please feel free to comment at The Inhumanities.

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The meaning of “humane”

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ takeover of the Toronto Humane Society continues, despite the fact that their warrant expired at midnight yesterday. There have been widespread reports of employee intimidation by the OSPCA and the organization even demanded that an entire shift of regularly scheduled employees leave the THS, apparently [...]

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The OSPCA vs. The THS

Friday, November 27, 2009

Yesterday afternoon, after a multi-month investigation following a report in The Globe and Mail, the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals decided to lay charges, both provincial under the OSPCA Act and federally under the CCC, against senior staff and the board of directors of the Toronto Humane Society. It has been [...]

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