Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., But utilitarianism is not the theory its initial reception by the animal rights movement may have suggested.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). I repeat: If you eat meat (I'd say: products that come from animals) , you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (i.e., The theory is sound.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It might reflect the values of the majority in some ways (and in other ways not), but its function is not as a moral statement, said that professor. We have a legal right to use them, but that doesn't mean doing so is justifiable moral ly. And as if there are humans who don't judge. However that doesn't make it right to use them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2009

Ruppy and four other beagles are the first dogs to glow, though the experiment has taken place in other animals. per cent of embryos came to term) and has moral issues attached as well. The worlds’ first transgenic dog, Ruppy (short for Ruby Puppy), produces a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

But they're already on a path of compassion and caring about those other than themselves, so in my experience they're the perfect people to gently nudge in the direction of concern for sentient nonhumans. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter? macworld.com). takepart.com).

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While people with dogs often experience the greatest health benefits, a pet doesn’t necessarily have to be a dog or a cat. Caring for a pet can bring pleasure and help boost your morale and optimism. Playing with a pet can elevate levels of serotonin and dopamine, which calm and relax.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

That's why people say that they have no problem eating them, harvesting them, experimenting on them, etc. It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings. Animals can't do that. Just the sorry animal rights movement.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

But they also haven't made a moral choice to not use animals. If PCRM can get more people to try a "vegan diet" for 21 days as suggested, which is what in my experience used to be called "strict vegetarianism" (and which is no better), that's an actual decrease in animal use for those people. My dogs eat vegan dog food.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? Systematic cullings in the absence of feasible alternatives, therefore, may be morally permissible. I believe it does help.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2008

But animals lack that reflective awareness which enables us to see our experiences and acts as our own (and thereby, of course, unlike animals, to be responsible for our acts). ( Animals are moral patients, but not moral agents. Nor does it follow from the fact that animals are not moral agents that they cannot have rights.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

Its validity is limited by other moral imperatives. That is, they contribute to increasing, in the long run, the quantity of satisfaction which an individual experiences. And I believe that in most cases man is morally justified in thus reducing the satisfactions of the food animals. But few people do this.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. My adult-adult experience was that it was actually painful at times to live with someone who ate animals and I wondered how long I could deal with it.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Is this moral? He says of this behavior, “It was a moral raven seeking the human equivalent of justice, because it defended the group’s interest at a potential cost to itself.&#.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 18, 2009

It's humbling to experience all of this for the first time in my nearly 43 years, from the showering in the morning and donning fancy clothes and make up, to commuting with thousands of my closest friends, to having to hire people to walk my dogs and spend time with them because I'm not home during the day.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

In the first case, there is no way around the suggestion, which many people appear to believe, that animal experience is so lacking in intensity that the pains of animals are overridden by the pleasures experienced by human beings. Either the vegetarian argues on utilitarian grounds or the vegetarian argues on nonutilitarian grounds.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2007

Why is it that so many progressives think it's silly to accord moral status to animals? Then again, progressives think abortion is merely a medical procedure, devoid of moral significance. In fact, as anyone with any sense knows, it destroys human life, depriving fetuses of activities, experiences, projects, and enjoyments.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 14, 2008

The question of whether animals possess rights is once again topical, largely as a result of the recent surge of interest in animal welfare and in the moral pros and cons of eating animals and using them in scientific research.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly. It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

I feel the unique pain they experience when they hear or read ( gasp! ) Wrong and right are less useful and more fluid in language, but they're not in morality. And the purist, ever in denial of that fact of history, will forever endeavor to maintain whatever definition he or she believes is correct, and malign all others.

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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 do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong. I think it is an honor to be offered the opportunity to post on here with him and Mylan.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. There's no remotely vegan or even vegetarian (though I'm not even sure what the latter would look like) message.

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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. Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong.

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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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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

The sleeping Long-billed Curlew that Mary and I espied at the salt ponds of Punta Morales. These experiences, guiding, and other aspects of birding were gifts, I look forward to 2020.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 17, 2008

For a non-self-conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Self-consciousness is morally significant; species, like race or sex, is not. Note that this distinction does not make Singer a speciesist, since it is not species that makes the difference.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

According to Wikipedia, “A l owl ife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community” The local Nanhui shrikes are well aware that the word “lowlife” has an owl hidden inside, and mark the appearance of owls in their territory with harsh protests. Not this one though.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There's not enough evidence for an accusation of moral relativism, but for me the message is a mixed one. 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. He is against it for himself and his family. This is very silly.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2010

If a person is in a discipline in which he or she is attempting to understand a culture or wants to experience a culture, vegetarianism is nearly impossible. In other words, there are moral limits to science, as to law. Food is such an important part of history. In many ways, it has a lot to do with defining one's culture.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

Having learned from my Namibian experience I walked away briskly. Called the family doctor, went by, and got sent to the Tropical Diseases Institute without her taking as much as my pulse… Not good for one’s morale, I can tell you. The reservoir provides drinking water to the town of Chimoio and process water to my client.

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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. If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute 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. If you are like most people, you think that it is seriously morally wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering. Its primary focus is the well being of other sentient beings.

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