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Press and web reports up to February 2011

8th February 2011

Here are just some of the press and web reports on the doings of the Centre, the Director, and its Fellows during the previous year.

5 January, 2010
Doris’ animal rights blog
Should intelligence determine personhood?
(Professors Thomas White and Andrew Linzey)
http://animalrights.about.com/b/2010/01/05/should-intelligence-determine-personhood.htm

9 February, 2010
Review of Why Animal Suffering Matters (WASM) by Professor Joel Marks
Philosophy Now
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue77/77marks2.htm

27 February, 2010
Use of laboratory animals: revisiting reduction and refinement strategies
Vet Times [UK] 2010; 40(8): 6, 8-9 (Jasmijn De Boo and Dr Andrew Knight)
http://www.animalexperiments.info/studies/summaries/reduction_refinement_de_boo_et_al_2010.html

18 March 2010
Simon Jenkins
The Guardian
Votes for dogs appeals, but giving animals rights is moral chaos
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/18/animal-rights-moral-chaos

25 March 2010
Environmental Ethics
Review of WASM by Ty Raterman
http://www1.pacific.edu/~traterma/raterman_review_linzey.pdf

29 March 2010
Review of WASM by Christopher Libby
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 4.1
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/JSRNC/article/view/7176/5798

1 May 2010
Which party would animals vote for? by Dr Andrew Knight
Vet Practice 2010; 42(3): 10-11.
http://www.andrewknight.info/publications/miscellaneous/politics/politics.html

1 May 2010
Review of Andrew Linzey’s Creatures of the Same God by Gracia Fay Ellwood
The Peaceable Table
http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue65.html (scroll half way down)

20 May 2010
Is animal welfare on election agenda? by Dr Andrew Knight
Vet Times 2010; 40(18): 14-16.
http://www.andrewknight.info/publications/miscellaneous/politics/politics.html

1 June 2010
Review of The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence by Debra J. White
Animal People
http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/10/6/June2010.pdf (p. 17)

16 July 2010
Review of WASM by Bernard G. Prusak
Commonweal
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/human-society

16 July 2010
Review of The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
Humane Education Newsletter
http://humane-education.org.za/view/blog/childhood-development-impaired-by-animal-abuse/

1 September 2010
The Australian
Review of Professor Deborah Cao’s Animal Law in Australia and New Zealand
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/reforming-the-farm/story-e6frg8nf-1225911725079

5 September 2010
Review of Andrew Linzey’s Creatures of the Same God by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat,
Spirituality and Practice
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=20175

29 October 2010
Welfare of laboratory animals under threat, Dr Andrew Knight.
Veterinary Practice
http://www.animalexperiments.info/studies/summaries/animal_welfare_knight_2010.html

30 November 2010
Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg
Hurt an Animal, Hurt a Child, Review of the Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence by Louise van de Merwe
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-11-30-hurt-an-animal-a-child

7 December 2010
The Hollywood Reporter
‘The Price is Right’ host Bob Barker honored for protection of animals
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/price-host-bob-barker-honored-57262

7 December 2010
Mercy for Animals website
Bob Barker honored by Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
http://www.mfablog.org/2010/12/bob-barker-honored-by-oxford-centre-for-animal-ethics.html

15 December 2010
Huffington Post
An Advent Reflection on God and Animal Cruelty by Bruce Friedrich
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-friedrich/an-advent-reflection-on-g_b_788795.html

5 January 2011
Celebrity News
At 87, Busy Bob Barker becomes Oxford Centre Fellow
http://becksmithhollywood.com/?p=3173