Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Legislation forbidding cruelty to animals represents the use of coercion against the interests of the individual coerced, and not to further the interests of any other person (it may do so but need not to be justified). who cannot protect their interests.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming—melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people—she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. by which animal diets exceed vegetable diets for us. And most of us, of course, just don't know about this. But what about the vegetarian alternative?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life. So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. The question is, of course, whether animals do have a right to life. But this says nothing about whether animals have welfare rights.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Not in words, of course, but they can answer in ways that we can understand if we are paying attention. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb. But we can ask, and they can answer. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2008

After impact, the hawk, a protected migratory bird, fell to the ground bleeding from the nostrils. The bird was buried on the golf course—perhaps in an effort to hide the evidence—but was later dug up by Florida investigators.

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