Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Let's summarize and deconstruct: After a botched execution, Ohio adopted a single-drug formula to replace the three-drug cocktail previously used to kill people. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. Where's the moral objection on behalf of cows?

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Animal Person

JANUARY 1, 2010

But I frankly never thought of not helping individual cats and dogs (through adoption) as an option for me. But then I wasn't able to put that theory into practice once weighed against, say, the millions of dogs and cats who are going to be killed for the brutal crime of homelessness. Do you agree with that?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

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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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

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. Breeders kill shelter animals’ chances to find good homes.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created. 3) They disagree with me, not about sentience, but about some god putting animals here for us, or some other reason why we can kill animals even though their sentient.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. One ought to adopt the best means. The Argument from Actual Practice Still, it may be objected that this is to overlook actual practice. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal.

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