10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.

Wildlife 232

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 232

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154).

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

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.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40