Critter News
OCTOBER 26, 2008
I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
“The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. What about their horror?
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Animal Ethics
MAY 4, 2008
If Smith thinks that plant rights and animal rights stand or fall together, then he is confused, for there is a morally relevant difference between plants and animals, namely, that only the latter are sentient. Addendum: Smith appears not to understand the animal-rights movement.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
It’s an understandable confusion in a way, as both conservation of animals and looking out for the welfare of animals are fairly natural impulses for the people that care about animals. If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct.
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