Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2008

But animals lack that reflective awareness which enables us to see our experiences and acts as our own (and thereby, of course, unlike animals, to be responsible for our acts). ( Animals are moral patients, but not moral agents. Like children, they can be wronged but cannot wrong. You and I have both.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly. But not so far as seriously to limit man's domination of the world.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The dark secret behind factory farm profits—cruel and inhumane animal husbandry—is getting out. Factory farmers treat animals inhumanely for no good reason. Since morally decent individuals oppose treating animals inhumanely for no good reason, factory farming is becoming an increasingly hard sell.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering. KBJ: This misrepresents Singer’s view, which I described above.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Second, many of the things you can do to stop supporting animal cruelty—like not buying or wearing fur or fur trim—require minimal effort and no expense! Of course, since that is so easily accomplished, you may have already fully succeeded in carrying out that aspect of resolution 11 long ago. Do it for the animals.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Second, many of the things you can do to stop supporting animal cruelty—like not buying or wearing fur—require minimal effort and no expense! Of course, since that is so easily accomplished, you may have already fully succeeded in carrying out that aspect of resolution 11 long ago. Join me in resolving to do right by animals in 2007.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

They can't solve the problem of animal suffering all by themselves, so they throw up their hands in defeat and go on eating meat. How many problems can be solved—in their entirety—by a single person, even over the course of a lifetime? Take responsibility for your decisions. Yes, it has. I do what I can.

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