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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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APRIL 11, 2023

Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience. This is also present in birds & mammals, however it is not fully present in fish & amphibians. So why not worry about the welfare of a snake?

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Let us think of the more moral members of society as a moral elite, much as the generality of scientists form a scientific elite. I hope I do not need to stress that such a moral elite must not be confused with a social or intellectual elite. I am myself not so heroic. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 12 of 13

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. But the reason Hitler did not eat meat is irrelevant to the present argument. People who do not eat meat for moral reasons tend to be less brutal than people who do eat meat. Perhaps the argument from brutalization presupposes 2.

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JULY 7, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Animal Rights A stronger argument is made by people who maintain that animals have rights. In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life. According to Benn, only moral agents have rights.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. You will, therefore, agree with Martin about moral vegetarianism but not about Christianity. Another reason is moral.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Jenni, Ph.D.

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Animal Ethics - Untitled Article

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here. Note from KBJ: This post is by Mylan Engel.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

It would remain true, of course, that the vegetarian diet is more limited, since every pleasure available to the vegetarian is also available to the carnivore (not counting the moral satisfactions involved, of course—which would be question-begging), plus more which are not available to the vegetarian so long as he remains one.

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J. Baird Callicott on Misanthropy

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2008

Some indication of the genuinely biocentric value orientation of ethical environmentalism is indicated in what otherwise might appear to be gratuitous misanthropy. The biospheric perspective does not exempt Homo sapiens from moral evaluation in relation to the well-being of the community of nature taken as a whole.

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W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The predicament in such a non-moral case will concern only the individual and a few associates. When the ultimate values concerned are moral ones, on the other hand, and more particularly altruistic ones, the case is different; for the individual in such a dilemma has all society on his conscience. It need not.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. 22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. On the contrary, it is unwittingly to voice the very prejudices it has been the object of the present work to identify and refute. Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action.

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Michael Fox on Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There is no doubt a good deal of truth in this last point as well, and we are here presented with a serious moral problem concerning the world food supply. Michael Fox , "'Animal Liberation': A Critique," Ethics 88 [January 1978]: 106-18, at 116-7) But even this fails to establish a case for vegetarianism.

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R. G. Frey on Feeling and Principle

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It does not follow that this principle, which becomes the ground or basis of our vegetarianism, will be a moral one; but the overwhelming likelihood is that it will be, in view of the fact that it must convince and compel us to give up eating meat even when our inclinations, habits, and feelings run strongly in the opposite direction.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Wastefulness of Meat-Eating

Animal Ethics

MAY 24, 2009

For pastoralism belongs rightly to another and earlier phase of the world's economics, and as civilisation spreads it becomes more and more an anachronism, as surely as flesh-eating, by a corresponding change, becomes an anachronism in morals. Henry S.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly. But not so far as seriously to limit man's domination of the world.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

From the point of view of religion, however, the question presents a challenge. To such a question it is always possible to respond with a shrug of the shoulders.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on "Humane Slaughter"

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2008

The plea that animals might be killed painlessly is a very common one with flesh-eaters, but it must be pointed out that what-might-be can afford no exemption from moral responsibility for what-is.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. One ought to adopt the best means.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 7 of 13

Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

J. Baird Callicott on Misanthropy

W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Michael Fox on Vegetarianism

R. G. Frey on Feeling and Principle

Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Wastefulness of Meat-Eating

John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on "Humane Slaughter"

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