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. Killing a hog can be avoided.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He is against it for himself and his family. There's not enough evidence for an accusation of moral relativism, but for me the message is a mixed one. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. Not a single one.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. How does the health of a farmer’s family and community figure in when they are making the decision to continue industrialized production methods? That sounds like a win-win to us.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Is this moral? Photo by Paul Huber.

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