10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2008

Some indication of the genuinely biocentric value orientation of ethical environmentalism is indicated in what otherwise might appear to be gratuitous misanthropy. The biospheric perspective does not exempt Homo sapiens from moral evaluation in relation to the well-being of the community of nature taken as a whole.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Success requires nothing less than a revolution in our culture's thought and action. Might does not make right; might does make law. Still, it can make a contribution.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

Animal Welfare 100

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Notice that we (including, I assume, the author) would never allow such treatment of a human being. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

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