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A brown cow with a tag on its ear stands on a manure-covered ground. Opinion Columnist Lalita Rai encourages consumers to avoid purchasing furs, skins and other styles of fashion that cost animal lives. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Fashion shouldn’t cost lives

By Lalita Rai, Opinion Columnist | November 20, 2024

On the way to modern-day civilization, people across the globe formed families and communities to wear clothes, store food and handle various resources. For thousands of years, humans used animal skins and furs, tree bark and leaves to cover themselves.  Over...

Know what you’re eating

By Danny Cozzi | February 2, 2014

Animal rights activists know all too well the struggle of trying to expose the dangers and moral issues of factory farming. I should know; I’m one of them.At least that was the case until developments sprang up in the pursuit of raising awareness of...

Lecture shows meat diets are immoral

Lecture shows meat diets are immoral

By Jeanette Fritz | November 5, 2013

If my philosophy of ethics class has taught me anything this semester, it’s that eating meat is wrong. Plain and simple.Completely cutting out the basis of all meals is hard work, so to learn more I went to Fishy Reasoning, a Wednesday lecture about...

Testing on animals leads to important medical breakthroughs

Testing on animals leads to important medical breakthroughs

By Nathan Fulkerson | April 6, 2011

Animal rights activists are often concerned with the conditions of animals undergoing experimentation for medical research. That concern, while understandable, often comes with demands to put an end to animal testing. However, as long as the only alternative...