Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. KBJ: Humans and pigs are not just sentient, which already distinguishes them from microorganisms; they are, in Tom Regan’s terminology, “subjects of a life.” But we do need to digest food in order to live. But the question remains.
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