Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. As far as I know, no good evidence has ever been collected to support or refute (1). People who do not eat meat for moral reasons tend to be less brutal than people who do eat meat. But Hitler was also a vegetarian.

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Vegetarian Morals Inhumane Meat 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

For generations in the past, the story of animals came from their collective wisdom and heritage, from what we might call their myths and legends. But the ease with which we can tell our stories and post our videos must not render us incapable of moral judgment and decency. What do you think?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. The question of ultimate value is a very sticky one for environmental as well as for all ethics and cannot be fully addressed here.

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Ethics Morals Animal Liberation Humane 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

Basis of this collection are the interdisciplinary lectures on Animal Rights which took place from April to October 2006 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (Germany). The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here.

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Germany Animal Ethics Switzerland Netherlands 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

And, in a world where there is too much hate, the judgment of many earnest moralists is overwhelmed by the charms of love; and there are those who come to accept it at its own valuation and are thus led to assert that people have an obligation to increase the collective total of all value in the universe. But few people do this.

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Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40