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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

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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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. He said, “Figure it out. Read Carl Hiaasen.”. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017. The book is darkly funny.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

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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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

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. You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. Then again, he is not against the consumption of animals, " in general " (198). N]o fish gets a good death.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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.