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.
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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