Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2008

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2008

If their own values commit them to changing the way they treat animals, why haven't they changed the way they treat animals? Philosophers are trained to do this. The answer is that not everyone has thought through the implications of his or her values.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

[T]here is another class of cases where the state is accorded the right to interfere with the individual when he is not interfering with any other person, namely, where cruelty to animals is involved.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners’ Rights ” (news article, July 23): Any law that deems a dog as dangerous or vicious based on appearance, breed or phenotype is unfair and discriminatory. Canine temperaments are widely varied, and behavior cannot be predicted by physical features.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild? They're wild animals!

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

But this reply is based on a confusion between the praiseworthiness or blameworthiness of a moral agent and the rightness or wrongness of the action of an agent. Although animals may be free from blame in eating meat since they are not moral agents, animals in eating meat may still be doing something that is prima facie wrong.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. Today, because of the consolidation of the industry, all of our trains are barreling down the same tracks, and it takes only one critical contamination to cause a disaster. If we must eat conscious beings, we must show them respect. Bertha Rogers Delhi, N.Y.,

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