Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2011
The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Under pressure from animal rights groups and the public, many airlines have banned the practice.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 4, 2008
If their own values commit them to changing the way they treat animals, why haven't they changed the way they treat animals? Their only tool is the law of noncontradiction, which says that no proposition can be both true and false. Here is a brilliant example of this approach. Philosophers are trained to do this.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. For example, the Treaty of Amsterdam that came into force on May 1, 1999, formally acknowledged that nonhuman animals are “sentient beings” and not merely goods or agricultural products. What is the common law? Salem and Andrew N.
Animal Ethics
MAY 4, 2008
There is no inconsistency in rejecting plant rights while accepting animal rights. 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.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 9, 2007
Resorting to violence against person or property is not in the long-term best interests of animals, as Peter Singer has argued. Those who break duly enacted laws should be punished. All of us are entitled to work within the political system to enact laws we believe just and to repeal or amend laws we believe unjust.
Animal Ethics
JULY 14, 2012
Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. Libya) citizens do not have these rights.
Critter News
JULY 19, 2009
Sunstein is a Harvard law professor who has written about animal protection issues. He is the co-editor, for example, of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, which examines views both in favor and against animal law.
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