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2011-04-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

Calling animals 'pets' is insulting, academics claim

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Posted by tipper 2011-04-30 17:41|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury

Nobel prize candidate, fershure.

Posted by Pappy 2011-04-30 18:00|| 2011-04-30 18:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Ima thinkrn Andrew likes to dress up in a leash and collar on weekends and be disciplined by his "master"

Posted by Frank G 2011-04-30 19:13|| 2011-04-30 19:13|| Front Page Top

#3 So what should we call cows that are raised for food? They're not pets, except in rare cases.

Personally, I would vote for "hamburger on the hoof", but Andrew Linzey would find that insulting (to the cow).

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-04-30 19:21|| 2011-04-30 19:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "Personally, I would vote for "hamburger on the hoof", but Andrew Linzey would find that insulting (to the cow)."

We understood you meant "hamburger on the hoof" to refer to he cow, Rambler.

It's obvious Mr. Linzey would be too dry and stringy to make good hamburger. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-30 19:37|| 2011-04-30 19:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Insulting to who? I am certain the animals don't care what they are called (as long as it is not 'late for dinner'.)

Posted by Glenmore 2011-04-30 19:38|| 2011-04-30 19:38|| Front Page Top

#6 "the cow"

PIMF :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-30 19:39|| 2011-04-30 19:39|| Front Page Top

#7 "who once received an honorary degree from the Arch~~druid~~bishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of 'God's sentient creatures'"

That says it all.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-30 19:40|| 2011-04-30 19:40|| Front Page Top

#8 My pet cat is Named Pet (short for Petra). She does not mind to be called as such as there is an understanding that whenever I call her, it s almost as if I were saying food's ready. She agrees to be domesticated as long as that excludes masticated. She is free-living (comes and goes as she pleases), but sometime a bit wild, and at other times a bitch. She is usually a cuddly critter, but there were times when she's a beast.

Regarding animal rights, she accepts that the mice have a right to be cornered and frightened to such a degree that their hearts pump blood with such a force that they jump off the floor by the sheer action of the pulse. She thinks the birds' feathers are unsightly and considers that birds have a right to be defeathered. Whether they are recycled or not depends on her mood. Squirrels have a right to be positioned on the doormat neatly, with their heads and tails. It is uncertain what happens to the body.

Posted by twobyfour 2011-04-30 23:32|| 2011-04-30 23:32|| Front Page Top

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