Animal Ethics
AUGUST 1, 2008
The preciousness of individual deer, as of any other specimen, is inversely proportional to the population of the species. Baird Callicott , "Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair," Environmental Ethics 2 [winter 1980]: 311-38, at 326 [ footnote omitted])
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
Concern for animal (and plant) rights and well-being is as fundamental to the land ethic as to the humane ethic, but the difference between naturally evolved and humanly bred species is an essential consideration for the one, though not for the other. (
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
One might first ask, “Why does higher intelligence mean that one species is more valuable than other species?” Second, there are other species besides human beings that have high intelligence, e.g., chimpanzees and dolphins. What should our moral attitude be toward eating members of these species?
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