Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. 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.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 11, 2013

Mylan Engel Jr and Kathie Jenni are the authors of this book. Mylan is a longtime contributor to this blog. We met in graduate school at the University of Arizona in 1983.

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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.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 20, 2008

His aim in this anonymous work was to mock Mary Wollstonecraft's books A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), as well as Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791). If women have rights, then animals have rights. Animals do not have rights. Animals do not have rights.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2008

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. There I argued that the interests of animals ought to be considered equally with our own interests and that from this equality it follows that we ought to become vegetarian.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

I don't expect that many readers will be converted to the cause of animal rights by reading this book. If they are to be swayed, the change is likely to come from witnessing the realities of the fate endured by animals. Nor have I dealt with advances in the legal protection of animals both in practice and in theory.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 25, 2016

Mylan Engel Jr and Kathie Jenni, The Philosophy of Animal Rights: A Brief Introduction for Students and Teachers [New York: Lantern Books, 2010], 7 [italics in original]) Note from KBJ: I reject this conception of philosophy.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 16, 2016

Peter Singer reviews Wayne Pacelle's new book.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 5, 2009

It may also now be time for humanity to consider that its responsibilities go beyond humankind and extend to other beings as well—to animals and even to plants. What gives me the right to deprive animals who live in the forest of their sustenance? It is might, sheer might and might alone.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Chase and his wife, Jen, are animal lovers, which makes them good people in my book. He is a star player for the Philadelphia Phillies, who are in this year's World Series (which begins tonight in Tampa). See here for a story.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 21, 2007

My original interest was narrow: animal rights. The book that started everything was Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men [(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978); I finished reading this book on 28 December 1980]. Originally, I said, I was focused on animals.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 3, 2007

I wrote the following for a blog on the Animals and Religion Forum on the Best Friends Animal Network website. So many people today do not realize how God feels about the animal kingdom, His own special creation. When Jesus died on the cross, He didn't just save us humans—He died for the animals, too.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) KBJ: Martin has already made two distinctions.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2008

Around the world, animal migrations are disappearing because of conflicts with development, agriculture and other human activities. Indeed, migratory animals are useful indicators of the health of the global environment; their safe passage is in our best interest. Wilcove Princeton, N.J.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

Yet, in the case of domesticated animals especially, many people, particularly lonely people, regard (and often want to regard) their pet as a kind of lesser human being, with a less rich but still plentiful mental life which explains why their cat or dog behaves as it does.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

Dear Friends Who Love Animals, I am writing to ask you to help me get the word out about a wonderful free service to your patrons/customers. We are the Interfaith Association of Animal Chaplains. Each Chaplain works independently to serve people and animals in need. Any links you can put up to our site will be helpful to them.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 16, 2006

He received the highest score in both my fall 2005 Social and Political Philosophy course and my spring 2006 Ethics course. He can put up informational items, as I often do; he can argue; he can write book reviews; he can criticize arguments; he can comment on public affairs. I believe Jonathan’s plan was to become a medical doctor.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Yes, all food animals should meet a dignified end. To the Editor: Why would publicizing the ill treatment of slaughter-bound horses detract from the “undue suffering of other food animals,” as Christa Weil suggests? Hope Ryden New York, March 5, 2007 The writer is the author of a book about America’s last wild horses.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2009

Jean Kazez needs help coming up with a title for her book. Please help her. I like the first proposed title, but I would change "All Due Respect" to "With All Due Respect."

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NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Mylan recently provided a list of additional books, which I will add in due course. One thing I appreciate is links to animal-related stories. I still think of this blog mainly as a resource for scholars, which is why I added a bibliography. Thanks for visiting. Please spread the word to your friends, colleagues, and students.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

If you haven't read Barry Holstun Lopez 's 1978 book Of Wolves and Men , you should do so. Here is a New York Times story about gray wolves, who are no longer on the protected list in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. It changed my life.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

Addendum: This book by Peter Singer and Jim Mason should inspire you as you change your diet. It will be good for you; it will be good for your children (if any); it will be good for the environment; it will be good for other human beings; and, most importantly, it will be good for the cows.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factory farming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Here is a review of two new books about the consumption of cow flesh.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 2, 2007

By the way, if you're a publisher and would like one of your books listed in the bibliography, please send me a copy for review. That's an average of 94.1 visitors per day, which is a record. Thanks for visiting. I hope to do more posting during the summer months, when I have more time.

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JUNE 1, 2007

If you're a publisher and want your book listed, please send it to me for review. I hope you are making use of the bibliography in the sidebar. If there is a website that you think should be added to the blogroll, please bring it to my attention.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

2): Yes, 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the plight of the immigrant and focused in part on the meat industry. To the Editor: Re “ 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still ‘The Jungle,’ ” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. June 29, 2007 The writer, a law professor, collaborated with Dr. Miller on a published article in Nature Biotechnology and on a book chapter several years before the published article in Nature Biotechnology. Kershen Norman, Okla.,

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