Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is the question whether the wrongness of cruelty to animals depends in part upon the animals' suffering, or whether it does not depend upon that at all, but only upon the bad effects upon human beings of cruelty to animals, and upon the badness of the human states of mind that such cruelty involves.

Animal Rights 40

Animal Rights Rights Animal Cruelty 40

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

"By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain?

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty. 30, 2007

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Horse Slaughter Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

If capacity for pain were the only feature of persons which entitled them to our consideration, then vegetarians would be right in attacking the person/animal distinction. This approach to animal suffering allows us to reach a happy compromise between the utilitarian and non-utilitarian approaches to the problem of cruelty to animals.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Suffering Non Human 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

We can willfully contribute to the prosperity of factory farmers who profit from the mistreatment of animals, or we can refuse to support factory farmers with our purchases and purchase cruelty-free plant-based meals instead. Factory farmers are worried about their future livelihoods, and they should be.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms.

Rights 40

Rights Animal Cruelty Vegan Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. What can I do to stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty, and is it difficult to do so? b) Stop eating animal products. (c)

2007 40

2007 Rights Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

While cruelty to animals is a serious matter that should elicit widespread public outrage, efforts to reach the public through more serious means often fall on deaf ears in a world in which sex sells and there are both a war and an economic downturn. Animal suffering and human suffering are undeniably interconnected.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Animal Abuse Ethical Treatment 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

So, even if it were permissible to eat the flesh of humanely raised animals who were painlessly killed (as we have been assuming ), the permissibility of eating such animals does not entail the permissibility of eating inhumanely raised animals.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40