Critter News
MARCH 9, 2010
Tags: captivity animal ethics marine animals Orcas. They have the second largest brains of all marine mammals. That's pretty impressive and demands a deeply introspective review of how we treat them.
Critter News
JUNE 5, 2009
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site. Search the Libraries A good library is one of your best sources of information on the whos, whats, whens, wheres, and whys of animal research.
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Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
The general premises about natural reactions do not yield ethical conclusions. It should be noted that people might have strong negative gut reactions to large-scale food preparation having nothing to do with meat or animal products. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. But the argument so construed is weak.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 6, 2009
CONCLUSION There is no doubt that moral vegetarianism will continue to be a position that attracts people concerned with the plight of animals and with humanitarian goals. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. But such an act may deserve some criticism as well if the drowning man could have been easily saved by tossing him a life buoy.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 27, 2009
But aside from the fact that the truth of this ethical assumption is not obvious, it is not true that monkeys are man’s nearest relatives. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. But it is questionable whether they should perform them. Perhaps the assumption is only that one should eat what man’s nearest relative in evolutionary development eats.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
The important lesson, however, one that would add to Target’s legacy, is that all of us who love our dogs need to make sure that they have a tag and, even better, a microchip. To the Editor: Re “ Hero Dog From Afghan Base Is Killed by Mistake in Arizona ” (front page, Nov. 19): The story of Target, the Afghan hero dog, is truly heartbreaking.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 8, 2009
KBJ: This is true of every normative ethical theory, from natural law to divine command to utilitarianism to egoism to contractarianism to Kantian deontology. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. There are many complex problems connected with moral vegetarianism, and a fully articulate and comprehensive moral vegetarianism is yet to be produced.
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