10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. This standing and the rights associated with it must be enforceable against the government so that the public can hold it accountable.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

I propose that the moral significance of the suffering, mutilation, and death of non-human animals rests on the following, which may be called the overflow principle: Act towards that which, while not itself a person, is closely associated with personhood in a way coherent with an attitude of respect for persons.

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Morals Vegetarian Suffering Non Human 40

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." There's not enough evidence for an accusation of moral relativism, but for me the message is a mixed one. This is not a book about animal rights, and some might say Foer gets animal rights wrong as his only reference is PETA.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

MARCH 23, 2009

Very different moral obligations follow in respect, most importantly, to domestic animals, the principal beneficiaries of the humane ethic. As this last remark suggests, the animal liberation/animal rights movement is in the final analysis utterly unpracticable.

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Ethics Animal Liberation Animal Rights Movement Morals 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is a moral principle, and states that 'the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being'. According to Singer , the principle of the equal consideration of interests 'requires us to be vegetarians'.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Slaughter 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. You need to sell me a should that shows me how that land remains protected.

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 175

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here. We really appreciate it! Thanks a lot!

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Germany Animal Ethics Switzerland Netherlands 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. Since morally decent individuals oppose treating animals inhumanely for no good reason, factory farming is becoming an increasingly hard sell. With successes like these, factory farmers do have cause for worry.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work. But the entire industry is questionable.

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