Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Tigers are designed by nature to roam far and wide, hunt, claim territory and seek out mates. How many people and animals must pay with their lives before we acknowledge that big cats don’t belong in captivity? Jennifer O’Connor Norfolk, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? 1, 2009 To the Editor: As an ethics instructor who aims to inspire my students to think about the connections between their values and daily practices, I found Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article disappointing. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2010

26): The “heritage” of hunting will continue its decline into irrelevance and will eventually disappear. First, there is no “heritage” of hunting as it is practiced today. In the early days trappers and others hunted for survival. To the Editor: Re “ Working to Keep a Heritage Relevant ” (news article, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

No wildlife species, especially a migratory one shared in common by many nations, can withstand commercial hunting without end. All commercial hunting was banned, and those species were carefully managed for sport hunting only. Commercial hunting of wildlife was always a losing proposition on land.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

To the Editor: In “ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ” (Op-Ed, Dec. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Animals suffer when killed. 26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. Following hunting season, animal shelters across America see an influx of ex-hunting dogs who were cruelly left to fend for themselves. June 23, 2008

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Here is a New York Times blog post about wolf hunting. Peter Singer more broadly examines the moral standing of animals here.) While this belief might not compel us to be vegetarians, it does demand significant changes in the way we raise animals for food, and it forbids wolf hunting as a form of entertainment.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom ” (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the “sport” of hunting.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 23, 2007

Is there a morally relevant difference between hunting and dogfighting, such that only the latter is wrong? Hunting is morally acceptable. There is no morally relevant difference between hunting and dogfighting. If there is no morally relevant difference between these activities, then either both are right or both are wrong.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 6, 2009

Here is a New York Times story about bow hunting for elk. Addendum: Notice the two meanings of " nimrod."

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection. Biological warfare against human beings is generally condemned but not biological warfare against animals.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2009

I do not share the extreme vegetarian view that food reform is the foundation of other reforms, for I think it can be shown that all cruelties to animals, whether inflicted in the interests of the dinner-table, the laboratory, the hunting-field, or any other institution, are the outcome of one and the same error—the blindness which can see no unity (..)

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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).

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Its currency is ideas, and though it is those who act—those who write letters, circulate petitions, demonstrate, lobby, disrupt a fox hunt, refuse to dissect an animal or to use one in "practice surgery," or are active in other ways—though these are the persons who make a mark on a day-to-day basis, history shows that ideas do make a difference.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2007

14): To the animals being slaughtered, it does not matter whether their killers are local or whether they will be eaten or displayed on a wall. Hunting is cruel and cowardly, and any attempt to rationalize or gain acceptance for it as a sport does not eradicate this fact. Their suffering is the same.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 30, 2007

How do you protest fox hunting? You eat a dog, of course! See here for details.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2007

It is an animated website aimed at educating and inspiring children about endangered species, and all of our characters actually exist in a real-life camp in Tanzania which protects black rhino and wild African hunting dogs. whilst employing a local workforce and improving school and water supplies for surrounding villages.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. Though hunting still plays a role and led to a bilateral treaty with Russia, ratified last September, climate change is the major threat to polar bears today.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ On the Ground, Counting Deer ” (New Jersey and the Region, May 4) and the efforts of Essex County officials to justify the deer hunt in South Mountain Reservation: When I moved to New Jersey from New York City 13 years ago, I was enchanted to encounter deer in a forest two blocks from my house in South Orange (which abuts the reservation). (..)

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Animal Ethics

MAY 25, 2008

But now the situation has changed; not only cruelty—the enjoyment of animal suffering—but callousness, indifference to animal suffering, not taking it into account in deciding how one ought to act, is morally condemned. Controversies no doubt remain.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The law also made it a crime to sell videos in which animals were tortured to death by being burned alive, as well as videos of illegal dog fights. In July, a divided U.S.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Furthermore, although we say that animals have rights, we also think we are justified in hunting and eating them. If we say they have, we class them with beings the rest of whom are capable of duties. Even congenital idiots look like men.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

One wonders whether Scruton has ever lived with—taken responsibility for—an animal. We know that he hunts and kills them for pleasure and entertainment; but has he lived with one? Who, then, is being self-indulgent: those of us who love with no expectation of reciprocity, or those who love with an expectation of reciprocity?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Suddenly, the Hunt Is On for Cage-Free Eggs ” (front page, Aug. 12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

To the Editor: Your editorial against my proposal to thin the elk herd in Theodore Roosevelt National Park (“ Elk Hunting in the Badlands ,” July 8) missed the mark in several key respects. First, nobody has proposed creating “a broad precedent for public hunting in the national parks.”

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And there are many who see nothing wrong with buying meat at a supermarket, while disapproving of hunting even when the resulting meat is eaten by the hunter's family. Philip E.

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