Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. Tags: indigenous hunting canada inuit polar bear. But not with polar bears."

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

It is not that they do no wrong, but that “right” and “wrong” here make no sense. And that explains, in part, the appeal of the animal-rights movement. One wonders whether Scruton has ever lived with—taken responsibility for—an animal. Perhaps if he did, he wouldn’t say such foolish things.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

The conservation movement also has an ally in this in the farming industry, which relies on possum poisoning to reduce the potential reservoir of bovine TB (if that seems like an interesting alliance, in this fight the animals rights movement is allied to hunters, which oppose the control of larger introduced species which they like to hunt!).

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