Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni, Ph.D.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

“Ethics” includes a lengthy discussion on playback. “Psychological Effects and Mistakes” is an interesting addition, talking about how expectations may color our perceptions and the importance of being aware of the potential for bias and error.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

Mr. Bittman has some strong answers: evolutionary psychology, convenience and propaganda posing as marketing. Why eat produce that has no flavor? Why not go next door and grab a salty, fatty burger in a bag? It’s so much easier. Why do we eat so much meat? Why does the whole world want to eat like us?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The argument from brutalization, however, does not appear to postulate a logical connection between vegetarianism and inhumanity but rather a psychological one. Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization. Perhaps the argument from brutalization presupposes 2.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 27, 2007

But in a Darwin letter of April 3, 1880, which I have, where he thanks Georg Heinrich Schneider for sending him a copy of his recently published treatise “Der thierische Wille”—a valuable contribution to animal psychology—Darwin seems to sum up his life’s work in one sentence: “Everything about the minds of animals interests me greatly.”

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

But it is not implausible to suppose that, for many people, going without meat will have less psychological meaning and consequently strengthen their resolve less than wearing buttons and signing petitions. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

But it might also be possible to develop animals that periodically shed their legs and wanted to have their shed legs eaten, animals whose psychological health and well-being depended on such eating. So it is still morally wrong to eat their meat. Would these animals also be exploited? If so, would this be immoral?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine also recommends breast-feeding infants: Breast-feeding is nature's way of meeting the infant's nutritional needs, and also helps boost immunity, not to mention its psychological benefits. When breast-feeding is not possible, commercial soy formulas are nutritionally adequate.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

As Best writes, "Psychological and ethical change is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of the large-scale social transformations needed for creating viable democratic and ecological cultures." Tags: Activism Economics Ethics. Are there parts of it that resonate for you?

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