Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

If people are encouraged to believe that the harm done to animals matters morally only when these animals belong to endangered species, then these same people will be encouraged to regard the harm done to other animals as morally acceptable.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The International Primate Protection League was active in exposing and urging prosecution of this case. Signed on 2004-04-15. Completion date: 2004-05-05. Now, Matthew Block is not listed as a principal of the Corporation according to the Florida Department of Corporations. Signed on 2005-08-12. Completion date: 2005-10-17.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2008

I should think that the trustee of funds willed to a dog or cat is more than a mere custodian of the animal he protects. So far McCloskey is on solid ground, but one can quarrel with his denial that any animals but humans have interests. Rather his job is to look out for the interests of the animal and make sure no one denies it its due.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.) The animal-welfare groups have failed in their most ambitious efforts to protect laboratory rodents. "We

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

The concept of moral rights differs in important ways from that of legal rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal. An individual's race, sex, religion, place of birth, or country of domicile are not relevant characteristics for the possession of moral rights. a despot) or any group (e.g.,

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