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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

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.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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.