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Press and web reports up to February 2008
30th January 2008
Hardly a week goes by without the Centre being approached by the media about some aspect of the ethical treatment of animals. Some result in published comments, many do not. There is a continuing tendency on the part of the media to trivialise “animal stories” and to understate the rational case. “It is a key part of our work”, comments Professor Andrew Linzey, “but it is often an uphill struggle to get a fair hearing in the press. It is vital that the Centre continues to operate as an alternative source to the usual unenlightened comments about animals”. Below is a selection of news and web reports, both serious and superficial from August 2006, as well as some articles by Professor Linzey.
Thinking creatures, New Statesman, 14 August 2006
http://www.newstatesman.com/200608140052
The Good List, The Independent, 1 September 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article1223340.ece
Animals should not be scapegoats, The Times, 9 December 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3933-2494161_1,00.html
Faith and food fact files, 1 July 2007
http://www.faithandfood.com/Christianity.php
Putting dogs before children, Community Care, 25 July 2007
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/07/25/105259/our-desire-to-put-dogs-before-children-leaves-a-nazi-taste.html
‘First hit the pets, then the people’, Church Times, 17 August 2007
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=43209
Conor Gearty comment on animal rights, 13 September 2007
http://conorgearty.blogspot.com/2007/09/can-animals-have-human-rights.html
Link between animal abuse and human violence, Ekklesia, 16 September 2007
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5713
Is it kosher to pray for my cat? The Huffington Post, 21 September 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cathleen-falsani/is-it-kosher-to-pray-for-_b_65376.html
World Day for Animals, Anglican Communion Official website, 4 October 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7175652.stm
A heavenly kind of treat, Baltimore Sun, 7 October 2007
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.animals07oct07,0,4155282.story?track=rss
Do dogs go to heaven? Abilene Reporter, 12 October 2007
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2007/oct/11/all-dogs-go-to-heaven
Controversial lecture at Cathedral, Devon Sunday Independent, 28 October 2007
http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1787042
When a pet dies, Episcopal Café, 2 November 2007
http://www.episcopalcafe.com/daily/animals/when_a_pet_dies.php
All theology is animal theology, Thinking Reed, 21 November 2007
http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/all-theology-is-animal-theology
What are zoos for? BBC News, 8 January 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7175652.stm
Ethics of reintroducing species, BBC News, 29 January 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7212888.stm