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. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. To a point.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada.
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Animal Ethics
JULY 7, 2009
For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Consequently, the killing of some animals for food, if done painlessly, is not morally objectionable. According to Benn, only moral agents have rights. It is clear that few animals, if any, are moral agents in this sense.
Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2023
He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. " A lot of people have the opinion that snakes are "mindless" creatures, and that they can be treated with no consideration to their welfare. So why not worry about the welfare of a snake?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
The European Community and the member states signatory to the treaty are required “to pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals.” Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries. Steven M.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated. Lerner Woodside, Calif., Wolves eat sheep.
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