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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on Animals

Animal Ethics

The former view is the one adopted by Bentham and Mill, and (I believe) by the Utilitarian school generally: and is obviously most in accordance with the universality that is characteristic of their principle. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics , 7th ed. or are we to confine our view to human happiness? published in 1874])

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Thomas E. Hill Jr on the Basis of Human Dignity

Animal Ethics

That is, he not only conforms to the principles that he freely adopted but does so because they are principles that he freely and rationally adopted. Kant's ethics is as much an ethics of self-esteem as it is an ethics of duty. This is the person most completely "self-governing."

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Adopt a Chimp

Animal Ethics

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Adopt a Chimp

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant. Rather than adopt stringent United States animal care standards, which Ringling Bros. fully supports, officials in Mexico City unnecessarily banned circuses with animals. performance, and their No.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

We’ve been educating, helping and begging people to spay and neuter their animals for years, but three million to four million cats and dogs still die in shelters every year because of simple math: too many animals, not enough worthy adoptive homes. This crisis calls for mandatory spay and neuter legislation.