Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2007

Barbaro's killing is a case of euthanasia. Euthanasia is often called mercy killing, for obvious reasons: Its motive is mercy. It is done for the sake of the being who is killed, rather than for the sake of some other being or beings or of society generally. It's convenience killing, not mercy killing.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Either the vegetarian argues on utilitarian premises, or he tries to supplement or replace his utilitarianism with some plausible non-utilitarian principles implying the wrongfulness of rearing and killing animals for food.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 3, 2007

I just wanted to share it with you: I was at a book signing recently for my book ( All Creatures of Our God and King: What God's Word Says About Animals ) and I was approached by a man who asked me the following question: "Why would anyone want to write a book about what the Bible says about animals?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 17, 2008

Preference utilitarians count the killing of a being with a preference for continued life as worse than the killing of a being without any such preference. For a non-self-conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Second, it might be argued that although it is wrong to kill microorganisms, it is not obvious that eating them kills them. Neither is it obvious, however, that eating microorganisms does not kill them. Let us suppose that some microorganisms that are eaten are killed, e.g., by the digestive workings of the body.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

If a person is in a discipline in which he or she is attempting to understand a culture or wants to experience a culture, vegetarianism is nearly impossible. So, how you would respond a person like me who cares for animal welfare, consciously stays away from the worse meat he can, and eats it mostly for cultural reasons.

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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. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As

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