Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? Finally, what of the audience? The hysteria of the crowd surely played a part in escalating an already frightening situation. This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2009

Here is Andrew Revkin's latest post at Dot Earth. Here is the Yes video:

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Currently, I am very interested in social and political philosophy and ethical issues. I felt a strong sense of connection to the ideas of Peter Singer while taking Ethics from Keith. Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2011

Like the animals that share our homes, roosters experience pain and fear, and they don’t want to die. Many people don’t realize that roosters are confined in tiny cages for most of their lives and killed for their feathers. There are plenty of ways to get a killer look, without killing animals. STEVE POST Holland, Mich.,

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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. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 30, 2013

Want to kill your cat? Feed him or her a vegan diet.'

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

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. So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. But this is surely dubious.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2009

Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat animals you breed, keep, and kill for food?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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. 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.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

It does not settle such questions as to whether it is right to kill them if they are a burden or if they are enduring pointless suffering, but it does bear in an important way on such questions. Similarly, important conclusions follow from the question as to whether animals have rights.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 8, 2007

There was a senseless killing last night. Police officers speculate that the killing was cult related. Whatever the circumstances, I can't help but think of the killing as a murder. Needless to say, animal-rights and other groups are up in arms. Then—and here's the grisly part—the assailant cut the sheep's head off.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2008

Thanks to Adrian Seeley for calling to my attention this story about PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour, who allegedly intentionally killed a red-shouldered hawk with a golf shot. Isenhour is charged with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 14 months in jail and $1,500 in fines.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described. Would it be morally permissible for you to kill some people and eat them? On this hard-line view one ought never to kill any nonhuman animal unless it were right to kill a human being in the same circumstance.

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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

MARCH 28, 2007

I can't help but think that, by improving the lives of the animals who are killed to satisfy human gustatory preferences, we are entrenching the idea that animals exist for human use. All we are doing by improving the lives of farmed animals is allowing people to eat meat with a better conscience.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

Doesn’t it know that our American diet is killing us and our economy? Might we add all the misinformed diets promoting proteins while vilifying grains and carbohydrates? Why does the whole world want to eat like us? Americans want to eat the good stuff, but it must be readily available.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

After witnessing hours if not days of senseless killing, someone finally musters the courage to take on the killer and delivers what has to be a devastating blow. One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S., Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. Sadly, the horror continues.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 28, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Biotech Company to Auction Chances to Clone a Dog ” (news article, May 21): Cloning animals to “replace” treasured companions is a boondoggle. These beloved animals’ personalities and charming quirks cannot be so easily reproduced. May 21, 2008

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The Indiana Daily Student wrote an article today encouraging people to kill and eat man's best friend! Someone sent me a link to this student op-ed column. The sender wrote: This is outrageous! The author isn't advocating that we eat dogs.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. If we all decide to consider animals as precious as humans, the only logical place for us is back in the jungle.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Yes, racists are allowed to “spew racism,” but they are not allowed to encourage criminal activities, and if they were to carry their “advocacy” to the point of distributing videos that depicted the actual maiming or killing of the people they would like to get rid of, they would not be able to claim First Amendment protection.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Legislation forbidding cruelty to animals represents the use of coercion against the interests of the individual coerced, and not to further the interests of any other person (it may do so but need not to be justified).

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal. As the dogs tear chunks of flesh from the terrified pig, the hunters undoubtedly feel proud of their accomplishment.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2008

The killing and maiming of animals for sport is a cruel and violent activity that is the antithesis of what schools should be teaching. We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the “sport” of hunting.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2007

Look at all the animals you can kill, butcher, cook, and eat in one city. It makes me want to go out and slaughter a gopher.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

This becomes especially true when one realizes that vegetarians often argue that a reason that it is prima facie wrong to eat animals is that animals must be killed to provide the food. So in order to save the dog’s life or health, another animal must die. Should he oppose this eating? If so, how? KBJ: Three points.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 29, 2008

Michael Lockwood, "Singer on Killing and the Preference for Life," Inquiry 22 [summer 1979]: 157-70, at 158)

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

To train them to fight one another, and then to kill the losers of these fights, is barbaric beyond words. How could someone support, much less organize, such a vile practice? Dogs evolved with humans. They are our trusted friends and companions. I also hope that the National Football League banishes him.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. More and more people do not. We call ourselves vegetarians.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 21, 2007

This doesn’t ring true, suggesting as it does that we actually ask the animals to make a sacrifice for our sake. What we are doing is raising and then killing animals so that we can eat them. If we’re going to raise farm animals and then kill them to eat them, we should say so. They don’t volunteer.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

April 9, 2009 To the Editor: In making the personal decision of where to place ourselves in our ethical relationship with animals, it is important to evaluate the reality of our words. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Kristof’s column.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 28, 2008

Davis, an emeritus professor of animal science at Oregon State University, says the horses “damage” the environment. Predator control (yet more killing by our government in the service of ranchers) is to blame for any overpopulation of herbivores. And no, the mustangs do not need birth control.

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