article thumbnail

On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources."

article thumbnail

Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. And the other is taking up vegetarianism. But what about the vegetarian alternative? Here what one needs to do is calculate the pleasure, interest, satisfaction, etc.,

article thumbnail

Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory.

Hunting 111