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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. To secure the philosophical foundation for animal rights requires abandoning utilitarianism. ( Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Instead, they hide behind passive verbs.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on Bentham's Treatment of Animals

Animal Ethics

"The French have already discovered," Bentham wrote, "that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same plight."

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

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