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Fish Feel founded to promote recognition that fish suffer

March 2, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“Fish are sentient individuals”             Your discussion of the 2010 Guardian article “Peter Singer speaks against cruelty to fish” (http://www.animals24-7.org/2013/11/22/peter-singer-s…ruelty-to-fish/ ‎) was much appreciated.  Fish are sentient individuals,  as has been scientifically shown.  Among other important qualities,  they are perceptive,  communicative,  and personable.  For example,  groupers use body gestures to invite eels to […]

Filed Under: Fish, Letters, Marine life, Opinions & Letters, Wildlife Tagged With: Fish Feel, Mary Finelli, Peter Singer

Peter Singer speaks against cruelty to fish

November 22, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

PRINCETON––Princeton University bioethicist Peter Singer,  whose 1975 book Animal Liberation helped to ignite the animal rights movement,  recalled in a 2010 guest column for The Guardian,  of London,  that some of his first awareness of animal suffering came during childhood walks with his father. “My father told me that he could not understand how anyone […]

Filed Under: Fish, Marine life, Wildlife Tagged With: Peter Singer

Henry Spira, 71, founder of the animal rights movement

October 9, 1998 By Merritt Clifton

      Henry Spira,  71,  died in his sleep on September 12,  1998 from esophageal cancer,  after an uncomplaining three-year battle. Encouraging Peter Singer to expand a 1973 essay on why animals should enjoy rights into the book Animal Liberation,  while taking a night course from Singer,  Spira virtually created the animal rights movement by leading his classmates […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Henry Spira, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer

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