Assignment #2

Animal Ethics: Philosophical Discussion of the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals

The website is produce by two persons: Mylan Engel and Keith Burgess-Jackson. They started it in 2003 to bring more philosophical discussion about animals. Most of the time, they share others’ work like news from the newspapers and philosophical articles. It is a website about their personal interest. They are not looking for money, but more to make people think about those animals, their rights in a philosophical way.

They publish articles about 5 to 10 times a month and it seems they talk about animals only (except when the put their blogs’ statistics every month). It appears that the comments are not allowed on the article, but you can send them email. For the social media presence, you can share their articles on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, but you can only follow them on Google.

I want a Pound Dog  

This website is produce by an organization in Toronto called Pound Dogs of Toronto Animal Services South. Its mission is to promote adoption of recued pets and to sensitize people to those abandoned dogs. As our social issue is about all kind of animals’ rights and good life condition, it touches only a part of our subject.

The majority of the blogs’ articles are a presentation of the dogs that are waiting for a human to adopt them. The articles are more descriptive and neutral than biased. The main goal is not to make money, but you have to pay to adopt or you can make donations to make sure the center can properly take care of those dogs before the can be adopt.

They publish content almost every day and the comments are allowed. Most of the time, people comment on how cute is that or that dog, but they also ask questions. The website has a Facebook fan page and a link to their Twitter account.

Animal Aid : Fighting Animal Abuse and Promoting a Cruelty Free Lifestyle

The website is produced by Animal Aid which is an organization in the United Kingdom that does campaign against animal cruelty of any kind. This website seems to be completely related to our social issue. It is full or various content. There are articles from the press, links to the campaign of the organization and its events, a link to make donations, etc. It is pretty complete.

The organization seems to be really involved in this cause and promote it a lot. Nothing here is neutral. We can see that they have at heart and are committed to the cause of animals’ rights.

Apparently, the website publishes news and information every week, but not all of those articles show the date. So they probably publish like 3 or 4 times a week. It appears that visitors can’t leave any comment but they can share the article by sending emails to their friends.

Once again, you can share the articles on a lot of medias (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Messenger, Blogger, etc.) but there is no apparent link for a Facebook page or a Twitter account. I did some research and I did find a Facebook fan page but no Twitter account.

The Guardian: Animal Welfare

As written in the name of the website, The Guardian is the producer. It’s a serious company of newspapers that is in charge of publishing articles. Almost every day, the journal adds new articles to its website about animals. Not only on animals’ rights, but on anything that concerns them. The Guardian publishes articles, photos, videos and even audios of all kind which is not necessary related to our subject every times.

As the majority of the websites found, the comments are not permitted. Visitors can only share articles, not leave any thoughts directly on the website. The articles are made by journalists working at the journal and it is quite neutral. The producer of this section does it probably to inform and to make money. It is a newspaper after all.

The Guardian has a presence on Facebook and Twitter but for the entirety of the journal, not only for the animals’ section. It also has an application.