Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?"

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Killing Animal Morals Animal Liberation 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2008

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. There I argued that the interests of animals ought to be considered equally with our own interests and that from this equality it follows that we ought to become vegetarian.

Killing 40

Killing Animal Liberation Vegetarian Animal 40

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Ralph Freeman has killed cats and kittens in his laboratory at UC Berkeley with no benefit for humans for over twenty years. Justice's hammer falls again and again until it ends when the price is a helpless animals life, --Feminists for Animal Liberation. Frederic Theunissen's car was scratched up with a hammer.

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Animal Research Research Animal Liberation Oakland 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

These two fish farms are a part of the huge Swedish fish farming industry that kills over 5 billion fish every year. Fish are individuals who feel both pain and stress, and to breed, keep them in cages and kill them, however it is done, is unacceptable. For the animals! DBF (Swedish Animal Liberation Front)"

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Sweden Animal Liberation Front Animal Liberation Farming 100

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40