Animal Ethics
MAY 11, 2008
You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter. The lack of maintenance and patrol is staggering under the stewardship of Joseph N.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2008
Many people exclude animals from moral consideration, even though they would never think to neglect, much less harm, a dog or a cat. Have you looked at images or videotapes of slaughter? If you haven't, then you are suppressing your sympathies, thereby protecting your moral principles from revision. This is bad faith.
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