Animal Ethics

JANUARY 26, 2007

It might be argued that any decrease in suffering for farmed animals is good, morally speaking. Indeed, doesn't it entrench the idea that they are resources for human use? What do you think of this ? But does giving pigs more room change the way they are viewed?

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Perhaps she would argue that there is no double standard, i.e., that there is a morally relevant difference between human animals and nonhuman animals that justifies the difference in treatment. I can't imagine what it is.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

In addition, producing more meat worsens worldwide hunger and food insecurity by dedicating precious farmland and water resources to the production of animal feed. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. But let’s not play psychiatrist with other animals’ minds.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2007

Inequality per se is morally irrelevant. One difference between human beings and dogs is that human beings can see how others live, can measure the gap between their own resources and those of others, and can envy those who have more. Do you see the distinction I'm drawing? What's important is welfare. Now let's focus on human beings.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? I hope he also knows that choosing a meat-based diet contributes to environmental devastation, involves a disproportionate use of the earth’s resources and causes untold health problems.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

You could easily argue," he added, that the resources necessary to buy and train a new monkey would be a net minus for animal welfare. He writes as if what he used to do--and what he defends--is morally justifiable on its face, and it's just the details that might be questionable. Why should we euthanize Clayton and start over?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. It can be argued instead that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent or approval to the present situation, that the only way to be true to one’s moral conviction that the present treatment of animals is inhumane is not to eat meat.

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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

MARCH 14, 2011

Even more telling, the support the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission was expecting from its hunting community simply never materialized. As you know, earlier this year the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission deferred the hunting of sandhill cranes in Tennessee for another two years. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” It’s a powerful motivator that has attracted millions of people from all around the world to devote time and money to protect these resources. You simply couldn’t have conservation without the should.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. It doesn't mean that you have the moral authority to tell me that I must support animal testing because you know better.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2024

We inferred that the infanticide sequence was done as food resource competition and/or sexually selected infanticide.” The male found the nest and attacked the unrelated nestlings. Many thrushes are not particularly elegant birds – think of Pale Thrush – but the Japanese Thrush is.

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