10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. I’ve written before at length about how conservation and animal rights , while often drawing on mutual a reverence of nature, are different beasts.

Lions 203

Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 203

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Animals suffer when killed. No pearly phrases can make that any better.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40