Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

So if human beings are ends in themselves, why not animals, since they too have feelings and goals that they value? Rollin , "Reasonable Partiality and Animal Ethics," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8 [April 2005]: 105-21, at 117)

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Animals as well as humans can suffer pain, deprivation, and unwanted death. An exception for vegetables is thus consistent with the categorical imperative; an exception for humans with respect to eating animals is not. Vegetables cannot.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 22, 2007

Though it may be too late for too many, we can only hope that diseased animals are not left in pain but are humanely euthanized to end their suffering. In 2005, a survey commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare showed that the Chinese are similar to Americans in their concern for animals.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. They may be killed in order to protect the health of humans (and other animals) if they are infected with a serious disease and cannot be quarantined.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. We know that animals suffer as well.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

June 29, 2007 The writer, a consultant, was vice president for agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group, from 1997 to 2005. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. Val Giddings Silver Spring, Md.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 2, 2006

On November 4, 2005, Rep. 4239 , dubbed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. The rhetoric of terror has been used to “justify” human rights abuses in Guantanamo. A brief look at the history of how this Act came to be law will unveil the actual motivation for the law. Thomas Petri (R-WI) introduced House Bill H.R.4239

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