Animal Ethics

AUGUST 15, 2012

The mere size of the relative population of the species to which a given animal belongs makes no moral difference to the grounds for attributing rights to that individual animal or to the basis for determining when that animal's rights may be justifiably overridden or protected. (

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 174-5 [italics in original; ellipsis added; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983]) Moral agents (rational beings) are ends in themselves. (

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Deborah Dubow Press Washington, Sept. 9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2012

Quite the contrary, just as would be true in the case of my son, what we should say is that part of the harm done to these animals by factory farming is that they do not know this. (

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Jeffrey Burton Russell, The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity [Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1977], 24-5) Because we have the power to exploit other beings to slake our greed, we do it, and until very recently we have done it without thought or consideration.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 27, 2008

Raymond Geuss and Quentin Skinner [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996], chap. (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan , rev. student ed., Richard Tuck, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, ed. 23 [first published in 1651])

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Animal Ethics

MAY 29, 2008

Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans. Norbert Guterman [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956], 141 [first published in German in 1932]) The fact that man has other beings in his power, and that he is in a position to use them as means to his own ends, is purely fortuitous.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But what we have accomplished up to this time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." ( Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 399-400 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

JULY 13, 2008

In no event is it permissible to regard the animal's interest as inferior without good reason, and to proceed to injure it. Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans. Norbert Guterman [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956], 142 [first published in German in 1932])

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

Wise , “ The Evolution of Animal Law Since 1950 ,” chap. 7 in The State of the Animals II , ed. Rowan, Public Policy Series [Washington, DC: Humane Society Press, 2003], 99-105, at 103 [endnotes omitted]) Salem and Andrew N.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2008

But animals lack that reflective awareness which enables us to see our experiences and acts as our own (and thereby, of course, unlike animals, to be responsible for our acts). ( Animals are moral patients, but not moral agents.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 197-8 [italics in original; endnote omitted] [first edition published in 1983])

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

An exception for vegetables is thus consistent with the categorical imperative; an exception for humans with respect to eating animals is not. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 45 [endnote omitted])

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Twenty percent of people who get salmonella have a drug-resistant strain. last year—more than prostate and breast cancer combined. 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty. 30, 2007

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Manfred Kuehn, Kant: A Biography [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001], 384-5) Note from KBJ: I no more think of myself as a citizen of the world than I think of myself as a citizen of North America or of the Northern Hemisphere. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth).

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

Hence, unlike humans, they cannot be called upon to sacrifice even for the good of other animals. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 125)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

I believe that this view of the moral status of animals is radically mistaken, not because its distinguished proponents are somehow misinformed about the facts or insensitive in their attitudes, but rather because they misunderstand the basic terms of their own moral vocabulary even as applied to human beings.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

If the idea of animal rights continues to be recognized intellectually, and if it grows in acceptance as a classroom subject, a good theory will help to solidify a cultural change toward greater concern for animals—a change that is already under way. I hope that this book will help this cause along.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Frey , Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980], 132)

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2008

If this be pressed, one must also deny that the incapacitated and the senile have rights, and must be hesitant before admitting that children have rights. Some philosophers admit rights only for beings who are capable of choice, and this is reflected in definitions of 'rights' as 'ranges of action' or 'spheres of autonomy'.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 6, 2008

Raymond Geuss and Quentin Skinner [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996], chap. (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan , rev. student ed., Richard Tuck, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, ed. 44-5 [italics in original] [first published in 1651])

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2007

In all cases the principle is the same—am I prepared to accept a maxim which would allow this to be done to me, were I in the position of this man or animal, and capable of having only the experiences, desires, &c., Hare, Freedom and Reason [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963], 222-3 [italics in original]) of him or it? (R.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

Taylor in Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Little did I know that I'd be coming back to that topic a quarter of a century later! Addendum 4: Smith should grapple with the biocentric arguments of Paul W. It is one of the best books I've read.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

There is for Singer, then, no escaping the conclusion: if we take morality seriously, a genuine concern for the interests of animals and for the diminution of their suffering requires that we cease rearing and slaughtering animals for food and cease dining upon them. (

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

Frey , Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980], 84-5 [italics in original; footnote omitted]) Note from KBJ: There are two mistakes one can make in thinking about animals. The first—anthropomorphism—consists in attributing distinctively human qualities to animals.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2008

I suspect that the moral judgments most of us make about animals do pass these phenomenological tests, so that most of us do believe that animals have rights, but are reluctant to say so because of the conceptual confusions about the notion of a right that I have attempted to dispel above.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Frey , Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980], 140-1 [italics in original; footnote omitted])

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 9, 2008

Frey , Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980], 2) Note from KBJ: Frey is right that the philosopher, as such, has no factual expertise. He should have added that the same is true of evaluative expertise. That X is a philosopher does not give X's values any greater weight.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

At the yearly Meat Marketing conference this summer in Nashville, the industry representatives seemed most worried about negative press concerning animal welfare; the words “global warming” were never even uttered.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

The NRDC's press release in response to the Bush administration's actions can be found here. Critics contend sonar has harmful effects on whales, possibly by damaging their hearing, and other marine mammals worldwide. The National Resources Defense Council's lawsuit alleges the Navy's sonar causes whales and other mammals to beach themselves."

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 20, 2008

Taylor's book Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), in which his namesake defends biocentrism (a life-centered, as opposed to human-centered, ethic). It's a good thing Taylor didn't live to see Paul W.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

It is my contention that we have duties to animals, and that these duties are direct, i.e., that they are not derived from duties to men, or rational beings. Leonard Nelson , System of Ethics , trans. The defining characteristic of moral agency is autonomy ("rational self-determination").

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). Michael Martin is a professor of philosophy at Boston University.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 267-8 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983]) If there are moral rights, they do not "come to be" in the way legal rights do. (

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Money for greater local enforcement is now the most pressing need to combat poachers and the armed wildlife trade syndicates to which they are increasingly linked. To the Editor: Your reporting on the illegal ivory trade (“ Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits ,” “The Price of Ivory” series, front page, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." According to HSUS's investigation (detailed in their press release ), the Sean John Hooded Snorkel Jacket on sale at macys.com for $237.99

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