Animal Person
JULY 1, 2009
Calf-roping (which of course is a hideous practice, but so are the rest of the animal-related rodeo activities). Societies evolve morally. The Calgary Humane Society works with the Stampede to make sure the animals are safe (and by the way that's impossible if the animals are being used in the rodeo. Not the rodeo.
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. It can be argued instead that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent or approval to the present situation, that the only way to be true to one’s moral conviction that the present treatment of animals is inhumane is not to eat meat.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 24, 2006
Each semester when I teach Contemporary Moral Issues, on the first day of class I begin with a survey. One of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?" To see an undercover video documenting how these innocent dogs are inhumanely killed, see here. But is it really? Surely not.
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