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. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And before any hunter can blurt out "Have you ever seen a deer die of starvation in the woods? We hunters are helping the deer," remember that hunters aren't in the woods looking for exhausted, starving, sickly deer to put out of their misery. Tags: Ethics Language. It's not pretty. Besides, we have choices.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. And not all organizations that advocate for animals claim to have a "genuine environmentalist ethic," and the ones that do must subscribe to his ethic or they're not genuine? Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother.

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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). I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies.

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. Hunters like him. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. The ability to feel pain is not an obviously plausible way of morally distinguishing microorganisms from other organisms. What Meat Should Not Be Eaten?

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

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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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40