<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:51:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/animalethics/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[THE BIG SIBERIAN TIGER]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello steemit friends,this is another of my entry for the daily #celestialchallenge. special thanks to @sirknight for initiating such a wonderful challenge that enables us to discover nature abd other]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/celestialchallenge/@joshuaedoja/the-siberian-tiger-another-of-gods-creation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/celestialchallenge/@joshuaedoja/the-siberian-tiger-another-of-gods-creation</guid><category><![CDATA[celestialchallenge]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[joshuaedoja]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:13:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5bEGgqZEHBMerzAE6VeigJtDKCDxyvruGeaPSVNfHDV1RAMqW9j1QifQA4zY8AZbCxZhYo6u6dbpXWNQ3pmUK3BgxSBnJYaS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals as Persons: The Nonhuman Rights Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawyer Steven Wise was first introduced to the ideas of animal rights and animal personhood by reading philosophy books. He soon realized, however, that philosophers and lawyers mean different things when]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-the-nonhuman-rights-project</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-the-nonhuman-rights-project</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2016 14:25:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eAhQXKtFQzKLJPUQH6GV8T27aErnUzV8XeN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals as Persons: What's Sentience Got to Do With  It?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why do we respect other people? Because we like them or have relationships with them? Because they are capable of reciprocating? Because they belong to the same social group, or ethnic group? Or is it]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-what-s-sentience-got-to-do-with-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-what-s-sentience-got-to-do-with-it</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:37:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXpWjEGkx4eWLqKr29Wbp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals as Persons:  An Introduction to Animal Rights]]></title><description><![CDATA[Things and Persons You’ve probably heard the expression, “Animals are people, too.” It’s a cute expression meant to show respect for animals, but actually being a person has a great deal of significance]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-an-introduction-to-animal-rights</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/animals-as-persons-an-introduction-to-animal-rights</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:50:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2923mMxKEVjzteT6E1G5H9wCTFuRJUCv7vxgHsbXv6ehLJd49fkbye2md3eMjfCKkHgqEVnxHghNcJKPeYb2bz53mytBoHzJ7VkmFMWN7JfuaW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should We Intervene in Nature to Help Wild Animals?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does nature know best? Animals in the wild suffer all the time from accidents, injuries, diseases, hunger, and thirst in situations in which we could help them. Yet many people believe that we shouldn’t]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/should-we-intervene-in-nature-to-help-wild-animals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/should-we-intervene-in-nature-to-help-wild-animals</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:21:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXrMmo8hwzgsa9WFXPq6v?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circuses Are on Their Way Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus have announced that by 2018 they will no longer feature elephants in their shows. This comes after many lawsuits, fines, and cities that have banned circuses]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@goose/circuses-are-on-their-way-out</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@goose/circuses-are-on-their-way-out</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:31:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5bEGgqZEHBMdoZVSE73mCnaT8EK5jA2uehEaUGTB8zhPhwfRoAMbcYnY97anpZ1y2Jar2Ghqox6ADcrrF52WaTtwzYDzGYe2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human-Animal Hybrids Coming Soon!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A modern-day chimera is “a hybrid organism with organs or tissues from multiple species… Scientists have mixed-and-matched human and animal cells for years, hoping to one day grow replacement human organs]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/nih-now-says-you-can-grow-human-animal-hybrids</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/nih-now-says-you-can-grow-human-animal-hybrids</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:28:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2923mMxKEVjzteT6F9TdN2V9DAAMHuMnddJtsoop15kDp3B4ZVXqHLzy8UHAw2fkMJXfE4VijVZUvzDud7vRVYTm32incdETc7sRauMqG2wqbL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Many Wild Animals Are There?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the graphic below, you can see that there are many more domesticated animals than humans on the planet. About 70 billion of them are killed for food every year around the world. But that's nothing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/animals/@goose/how-many-wild-animals-are-there</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/animals/@goose/how-many-wild-animals-are-there</guid><category><![CDATA[animals]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:09:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/23KQwnti57su8sXzVF89iQMBU5qna57br7um5GmUj9KSQ1iw6e7e8LbpYmWKCoNU3ESnB9ppMkUhd1zqaVibXNUgtu3LjtS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Makes a Chicken Happy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chickens like to spend time in the sunshine, spread their wings, dust bathe, spend time with their families and find safe places to hide their eggs.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/animalethics/@goose/what-makes-a-chicken-happy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/animalethics/@goose/what-makes-a-chicken-happy</guid><category><![CDATA[animalethics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:20:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/368La1qZAv72idE55WxeUj8USnXfm5a3M4AhWjgtBLiRubaQhjZvY42tdhJ57xGuyduGSPRnLvRWgDMeBJa97Jjp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Naturalistic Fallacy Persists Even Though There is Nothing Natural Anymore]]></title><description><![CDATA[The appeal to nature, also known as the naturalistic fallacy, is a logical fallacy in which what is natural is assumed to be good. For instance, natural environments are often assumed to be better than]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/the-naturalistic-fallacy-persists-even-though-there-is-nothing-natural-anymore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/the-naturalistic-fallacy-persists-even-though-there-is-nothing-natural-anymore</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:58:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXqKDhuJpF5rturFnoV7U?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stanford’s Virtual Reality Lab: Become a Cow, Then Be Sent to a Slaughterhouse]]></title><description><![CDATA[“I am a cow. “I am a cow in a lovely pasture, a green expanse ringed by distant barns. “In front of me is another cow— Karutz explains that this is a mirror image of my avatar, put there because, given]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/stanford-s-virtual-reality-lab-become-a-cow-then-be-sent-to-a-slaughterhouse</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/stanford-s-virtual-reality-lab-become-a-cow-then-be-sent-to-a-slaughterhouse</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:36:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Love Animals, Especially Eating Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a young child, I loved cats and dogs but ate pigs and cows. I didn't know that's what I was doing. I stopped wanting to eat animal flesh when I was a kid and I first found out that meat was the bodies]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/we-love-animals-especially-eating-them</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@goose/we-love-animals-especially-eating-them</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 03:17:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXqFCxDHnMcEtakYueNWz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Proposal for an Animal Welfare State]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philosopher David Pearce wants to see a world where all sentient beings are well cared for. With the rapidly advancing technology in computing and nanotechnology, he sees the possibility for a world where]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/animalsinsociety/@goose/a-proposal-for-an-animal-welfare-state</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/animalsinsociety/@goose/a-proposal-for-an-animal-welfare-state</guid><category><![CDATA[animalsinsociety]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:18:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXpaUWHmHMdP1NVL8BiAz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pets v. farm animals]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/animals/@goose/pets-v-farm-animals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/animals/@goose/pets-v-farm-animals</guid><category><![CDATA[animals]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:25:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/o1AJ9qDyyJNSg3j52kokyfvD831NZXpWeE2HVKNRgLvkqG1Qz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Can No Longer Say We Didn’t Know -- Injustice Against Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA["It warn't the grounding —that didn't keep [the steamboat's arrival] back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a [slave]."]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/animals/@goose/we-can-no-longer-say-we-didn-t-know</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/animals/@goose/we-can-no-longer-say-we-didn-t-know</guid><category><![CDATA[animals]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[goose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:33:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBrWfYqAiyeS9WvkMDGPrHSNPPfhAJaEAvbDnX3F8UVbt5n4zgWZJe5keAmGNJ4rhdgMHT7sdW6BwhZnm42?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>