Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. Most people hold that it is wrong to cause animals unnecessary suffering.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Tags: Activism Books Ethics.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

"There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally. Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

If you're going to claim that it was good for Native Americans so it's good for us, please know that they had an ecological ethic that we simply don't share. Ingesting suffering can't possibly be good for anyone's karma. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film. Not sure if the animal sees it that way. Are you annoyed yet? .

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

The PF Chang update, in case you haven't seen the response from the restaurant , is thus, once you incorporate the actual experiences of vegans who have gone through something similar with the restaurant: If you don't eat non-vegan sugar, there aren't many options. You are preventing untold exploitation and suffering by tackling them.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

Reading thousand-word long posts in black type on a plain white screen with nothing interesting to look at isn't exactly a satisfying sensory experience. I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. Currently, I am very interested in social and political philosophy and ethical issues. So, I took the plunge.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being. That's right, free!

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience. Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2007

But bulls are not cars, but rather living beings that experience pain and suffering. Even private equity is getting in on the action, with one manager believing this could be the next Nascar. This is music to the ears of advertisers.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

So, while this fact does not need to concern us, if we are thinking about ethical principles, for example based on rational arguments leading to deontological ethics, that changes when we are talking about how to move society towards this ethical ideal. I assume Francione does not disagree. I don't get why you can't do both.).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. If the experience of handing over that box can be transformative instead of alienating or shaming, there’s a possibility of change.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Though we don't know the extent to which plants experience any kind of suffering, we do know that sentient nonhumans experience pain, pleasure, boredom and frustration. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Religion agnosticism atheism counter-culture culture veganism. Am I the only one who sees it this way?

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

All animals except the dog are called "it" (I did a little experiment to see what would happen). There might be a handful of PeTA efforts around suffering, and there is " That's Why We Don't Eat Animals ," but what we need is a series--a franchise that makes veganism appealing. I'm a terrible fiction writer.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

And, of course, by experimenting with all sorts of new vegan dishes, you will be learning a new healthier way of cooking and eating. For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering. Free recipes can be found at The Vegan Chef and Vegan Connection.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

And, of course, by experimenting with all sorts of new vegan dishes, you will be learning a new healthier way of cooking and eating. For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. KBJ: Ditto. If not, why not?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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