Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Sounds interesting. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Given the logic of morality, we should extend our moral attention to those states that matter to it when our actions affect that being. not all or even most of our moral attention focuses on reason vis a vis people. Since it can value what happens to it, it has intrinsic value. So what if it can’t reason?—not

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Animals as well as humans can suffer pain, deprivation, and unwanted death. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 45 [endnote omitted]) Vegetables cannot. Hence there is a very fundamental and relevant sense in which we cannot harm a vegetable.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. In December 2005 a 50-foot, 50-ton, female humpback whale got tangled in crab lines and was in danger of drowning. Is this moral? Shirley and Jenny, two female elephants, were reunited after living apart for 22 years.

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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. Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals?

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