Latest news
Press and web reports up to February 2010
1st February 2010
Here are just some of the press and web reports on the doings of the Centre, the Director, and its Fellows.
9 April 2009. SALDF Students Win 2009-10 ALDF Advancement of Animal Law Scholarships, ALDF website
http://www.aldf.org/article.php?id=911
18 May 2009, University of Winchester website
University Vice Chancellor honoured by Centre for Animal Ethics
http://www.winchester.ac.uk/?page=10779
29 May 2009, Dilemata (Spanish) website announcing new journal
http://www.dilemata.net/index.php/Noticias/journal-of-animal-ethics-new.html
1 May 2009, Animal Blawg website announcing new journal
http://animalblawg.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/another-cool-animal-scholarship-opportunity/#comments
4 June 2009, Pluralist website
Chomping through animals, Pluralist website
http://pluralistspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/06/chomping-through-animals.html
29 June 2009, Marchig Trust for Animal Welfare
Madame Jeanne Marchig becomes Honorary Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
http://www.marchigtrust.org/news_01.htm
30 June 2009, Pluralist website
On Not Chomping Through Animals
http://pluralistspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/06/not-chomping-through-animals.html
16 July 2009, The Soulful Eye
Review of Why Animal Suffering Matters (WASM)
http://www.thesoulfuleye.com/2009/07/why-animal-suffering-matters/
1 July 2009, Deep Church
Review of WASM
http://deepchurch.org.uk/2009/07/01/why-animal-suffering-matters/
21 July, 2009, six discussions on A Thinking Reed on WASM
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/wasm-1-the-difference-that-difference-makes/
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/wasm-2-engaging-the-powers/
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/wasm-3-the-fox-and-the-hound-and-the-mink-and-the-seal/
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/wasm-4-linzey-vs-singer/
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/wasm-5-sed-contra/
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/wasm-6-concluding-thoughts/
17 August 2009. RSPCA
Clergy urged to highlight climate change
http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=NewsFeature&articleId=1236788979320&marker=1
19 August 2009, Ekklesia
RSPCA encourages clergy to highlight climate change in animal services
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/10094
20 August 2009
Theosophy website, review of WASM
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/reviews/why_animal_suffering_matters.htm
21 August 2009
A ethical duty to protect animals by Andrew Knight, Veterinary Times
http://www.aknight.info/pages/publications/animal%20research%20overall/Knight%20Animal%20experiments%20Vet%20Times%202009%2039(34)%206,8.pdf
23 August 2009, The Pluralist
Animal welfare highlighted
http://pluralistspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/08/animal-welfare-highlighted-and.html
30 August 2009, The Mail on Sunday
Can Mr Benn really be unmoved by these pitiful sounds of slaughter?
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-1209923/Can-Mr-Benn-really-unmoved-pitiful-sounds-slaughter.html#
7 September 2009, The Englewood Review
Review of WASM
http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=488
10 September 2009, BBC News website
Should pets have a £15 hospital?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8246995.stm
11 September 2009, The Times
Brute Creatures and the Passion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6831296.ece
11 September 2009, Vox Nova
Animal Rights and Human Rights: Is it time to connect the two?
http://vox-nova.com/2009/09/10/animal-rights-and-human-rights-is-it-time-to-connect-the-two/
13 September 2009
Normblog on WASM
http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2009/09/on-a-christian-approach-to-animal-suffering.html
16 September 2009, A Thinking Reed
Creaturely Theology
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/creaturely-theology-2/
22 September 2009
Epping Roo Killer, The Leader (Australia)
http://whittlesea-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/epping-roo-killing-can-not-be-ignored/
1 October 2009, Independent Catholic News
Review of WASM
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=14920
2 October 2009, Church Times
Why Christians should care about animals
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=82434
4 October 2009
World Animal Day, Blazing Indiscretions
http://blazingindiscretions.blogspot.com/2009/10/world-animal-day.html
5 October 2009
Peter Wedderburn column, Daily Telegraph
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterwedderburn/100012438/britain-today-over-secularised-and-paranoid/#comments
8 October 2009
Smerconish on deer condoms, Stalking Smerconish
http://stalkingsmerconish.blogspot.com/2009/10/smerconish-on-deer-condoms.html
22 September 2009
Epping Roo Killer, The Leader (Australia)
http://whittlesea-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/epping-roo-killing-can-not-be-ignored/
14 October 2009
Review of WASM by Mark Holzer, ISAR
http://isaronline.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-animal-suffering-matters-by-andrew_14.html
21 October 2009
The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence by Ian Roberston
Biosecurity Magazine, New Zealand
http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/publications/biosecurity-magazine/issue-80/animal-abuse
29 October 2009
Review of WASM by Elisa Aaltola, Times Higher Education (THE)
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408871&c=1
5 November 2009
Alternatives to Animal Testing by Andrew Knight, Veterinary Timeshttp://www.aknight.info/pages/publications/animal%20research%20overall/Knight%20Animal%20experiments%20Vet%20Times%202009%2039(45)%208,10.pdf
5 November 2009
The Rise of the Non-Veggie Vegetarian, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8341002.stm
27 November 2009
Review of WASM by Nadia on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A202FL2VAJS6AM/ref=cm_pdp_rev_title_1/178-7887341-8922323?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview#R3CCPP6YIWI2QN
28 November 2009
Guardian book review of WASM by Steven Poole
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/28/steven-poole-nonfiction-book-reviews
4 December 2009
Good reads review of WASM (number 2)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6599003-why-animal-suffering-matters
22 December 2009
The Rational Case for the Protection of Animals
Review of WASM by Dr Deborah Jones, Catholic Herald
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/reviews/r0000557.shtml
22 December 2009, A Plea for the Dumb Brutes
Review of WASM by Robin Gill, Church Times
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=86201
27 December 2009, Washington Post
Debate on animal suffering between Andrew Linzey and Adrian Morrison
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122301317.html
27 December 2009
Is it ever right for animals to suffer? Care2 network
http://www.care2.com/news/member/100041282/1342594
28 December 2009
Is it ever right to make animals suffer? Doris’Animal Rights Blog
http://animalrights.about.com/b/2009/12/29/is-it-ever-right-for-animals-to-suffer.htm
29 December 2009
A debate on animal rights, Thinking Reed
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/a-debate-on-animal-rights/
1 January 2010
How the top ten stories of the decade reveal the connection between animal welfare and public health by Dr Aysha Akhtar, Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aysha-akhtar/how-the-top-ten-animal-st_b_408605.html
3 January 2010
Scientists say dolphins should be treated as “non-human persons” (Professor Tom White), Times online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
6 January 2010
Review of WASM by Roger Scruton, TLS
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6977689.ece
13 January 2010
How much can you mourn a pet? BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8454288.stm
25 January 2010
Animal Rights and Moral Absolutes, WORLDmag.com
http://online.worldmag.com/2010/01/20/animal-rights-and-moral-absolutes/
27 January 2010
Linzey’s reply to Scruton’s review of WASM
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7004411.ece