Animal Ethics
AUGUST 15, 2012
The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. If people are encouraged to believe that the harm done to animals matters morally only when these animals belong to endangered species, then these same people will be encouraged to regard the harm done to other animals as morally acceptable.
Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2023
He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. This makes it much harder for people to have empathy for snakes, even though snakes have retained all the biological features that are important to consider for animal ethics (just like turtles and lizards).
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
These favor common law personhood, as a matter of liberty, at least for those nonhuman animals, such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, dolphins, and whales, who possess such highly advanced cognitive abilities as consciousness, perhaps even self-consciousness; a sense of self; and the abilities to desire and act intentionally.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 11, 2008
It's a problem for animals, particularly aquatic animals, as well. Here is an AP story highlighting the impact these pharmaceutical substances are having on aquatic and avian species. For example, exposure to these substances is negatively impacting the reproductive abilities of some fish species, threatening their extinction.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 24, 2012
Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g., Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 361 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983])
Animal Ethics
MAY 6, 2008
This doesn't show that animals don't have rights, for an unsound argument can have a true conclusion; but it does show—if Frey is right—that there must be some other basis for animal rights than the one provided by this argument. Babies may not be rational, but they're similar in many other respects to "other members of our species."
Animal Ethics
APRIL 23, 2008
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic catechism affirm that compassion for animals is a matter of human dignity. The United Methodist Church supports the humane treatment of farm animals and calls for the protection of endangered species.
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