Questions tagged [animal-welfare]
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How do people against speciesism see production chains?
Sorry in advance if this type of question isn't permitted here. This is a genuinely curious question, not teasing anyone. And I know, the following text is pretty messy, but so are my thoughts about ...
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Does the focus on "humane" killing of animals distract from the real moral problem of killing?
"Humane" in respect to killing animals means to minimize the animal's pain as they die.
But this seems to completely sidestep the moral issue with killing, which has nothing to do with the ...
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What is the meat paradox?
On the psychology of eating meat and the meat paradox:
One question examined in the psychology of eating meat has been termed the meat paradox: how can individuals care about animals, but also eat ...
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What support exists towards that humane killing of "prey animals" could be more ethical than refraining from it?
What support exists towards that humane killing of "prey animals" could be more ethical than refraining from it?
This view on "veganism" has interested me a lot lately, because ...
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The 'Strongest Argument for Veganism': Speciesism, ethics and necessity
The Effective Altruism Foundation provides the following as the 'Strongest Argument for Veganism'.
(1) We shouldn’t be cruel to animals, i.e. we shouldn’t harm animals unnecessarily.
(2) The ...
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Animal commodification
Is it morally or ethically justified to commodify animals (i.e., such as the tiger temple when it was a thing)? Should humans treat animals' ends (telos) with as much respect as we do ourselves? ...
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Is the killing of animals justified because of humans being at the top of the evolution/food chain?
I recently argued with a friend about veganism. My position was basically that everyone who can allow a dietery change in their lives ought to be vegan. I argued that these days there are sufficient ...
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For Kant, are we obligated to treat people who have no ability to reason or to give decisions or consents as always an end and not merely as means?
For Kant, are we obligated to treat people who have no ability to reason or to give decisions or consents (concerning with mental insanity) as always an end and not merely as means? If we are, why is ...
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The debate around moral veganism
There is an ongoing debate around morality of food habit. Of this debate I have only heard one side, the side of the moral vegans. Bentham, Singer and others propose veganism based on utilitarian ...
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Non-robotic animal behaviors?
Can anyone point me to written arguments which point out any documented behavior of any animal which is incompatible with an animals-as-robots model? The model I mean claims animals lack the general ...
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Morality, Animal Cruelty, and Non-Vegetarianism
This is a very common question, but I've always been torn about how I can give a rational moral justification for being a non-vegetarian. Is it not hypocritical for me to condemn other acts of animal ...
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The needs of many (in 'ok' circumstances) vs. the needs of few (in 'extreme' circumstances)
I am writing about decision making when allocating charity resources, and I need a bit of background on deciding between improving lots of lives for animals with, let's say, average welfare (that ...
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Why are these premises on vegetarianism "intuitive"?
I was reading the first answer in this thread which considers vegetarianism from a moral standpoint: An excuse for not being a vegetarian
Is it ethical for human beings to eat meat? To consider ...
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What is the ethical justification of animal rights?
I came to think about the animal rights, seeing that the post on the cats handing out in the school community became controversial.
The content of the article was that someone had rescued the kitten, ...
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Is it ethical to save tigers?
From a utilitarian point of view, is it ethical to save tigers by creating sanctuaries and criminalizing poaching, when such tigers are known to violently attack humans?
Also, one strain of response ...
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Does moral aversion to dis-enhancing animals suggest insecurity in our current beliefs?
Specifically, does an aversion to genetic engineering suggest an insecurity of values regarding animal welfare?
I ask because I am looking at the concept of using brainless chickens in the meat ...
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Do we need a theory of mind to think about qualia, and are these the capacity to think about the senses?
On animal consciousness
Carruthers (1998a,b, 2000) has argued to this effect based on his
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Most recent introduction to academic debates to vegetarianism and veganism
What are the most recent and comprehensive academic books on vegetarianism, veganism, food ethics etc.?
I am looking for something that would cover the main discussions in the field... something in ...
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Do humans have an ethical obligation to prevent animal on animal violence?
Going by a purely utilitarian perspective with a goal to reduce pain, I would think humans should do that. What it would involve, maybe feeding lab grown meat to tigers, and separating habitats? And ...
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Kill the last of a species to save one child?
On 30 May 2016 a gorilla was killed after a small child fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. The type of gorilla was a Western Lowland Gorilla, which are endangered.
Now, what if the ...
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Should the debate about the ethics of meat consumption focus around sentience and the ability to suffer?
I have been reading a little bit about the problem of consuming meat ethically.
As much as I find the ethical argument compelling I have some reservations regarding
the inconsistency with which it ...
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What is the difference between plants and animals for Singer?
Peter Singer cares a lot about animals and he is against speciesism, the discrimination on the basis of species. However, I've never heard that he had said something about plants.
What makes plants ...
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Is there place for animal utility in utilitarianism?
Is there place for animal utility in utilitarianism?
We know that animals can suffer, so they can have different states of well-being, and thus utility applies to them. However, I don't think that ...
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Is it more ethical to neuter cats than to let kittens be born and released outdoors when grownup?
This is about ethical requirements/duties versus practical constraints of people who keep stray cats as pets. This question and its discussion may be extended to stray dogs kept as pets, but ...
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Alastair Norcross's Puppies, Pigs, and People and utilitarianism
In the article "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal cases" by Alastair Norcross, he mainly argued that factory-farmed meat is morally wrong and that people who support it (including ...
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Are human lives always more important than animal lives?
Imagine a case: there is a fire in a house, there is a person and my pet dog and you only have enough time to save one. Which one should you should rescue?
I think most people would choose the person....
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Is there a school of thought that considers human less significant than other beings?
When discussing animal rights with friends, we talked about Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism and Ecocentrism. We were wondering if there is a school of thought that is the opposite of Anthropocentrism, ...
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Is it better thing to kill animal not human. Whats the difference?
One human is condemned if he kills another human, but if the same human killed an animal it is not a big deal and you won't even receive jail time (atleast in my country). How did we decided that ...
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How can we defend conservation on a species level?
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Many conservation measures in environmental biology such as the IUCN red list or measures against invasive species are done on the level of species rather than on the level of individuals. ...
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moral value of dairy products?
Is the consumption of dairy products or eggs compatible with a) the theory of animal rights and b) equal consideration?
Ad a) How can a right of ownership be defended, i.e. every animal is owner of ...
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Why is orangutan meat not good to eat?
Many of us, even slightly familiar with ethics, know about Tom Regan and his quest of establishing animal rights with us humans. According to him, vegetarianism is a moral obligation of all people, ...
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An excuse for not being a vegetarian [closed]
I recently found myself holding the following views, which seem to be in contradiction:
It is morally wrong to kill a human being which wishes to live; in particular it is wrong to kill a baby or an ...
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Why should almost extinct animals be protected from going extinct?
The feeling that it's "sad" if a species dies out seems to be coming from an aesthetic point of view how the world should be. But is there a rationality behind it?
The only rational reason I was ...
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Do animals deserve rights? [closed]
I've been thinking about this lately and I cannot come to a consistent conclusion.
Do animals deserve any rights? If so which rights and to which animals?
For example: testing medicine on chimps
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Philosophical justification for giving certain animals rights of a person?
There is a growing movement for the bestowing certain non-human species with legal rights of a person. What might be some of the most significant or important philosophical arguments in favor of such ...
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What are some good books on the relationship between animals and human beings?
So, there are a number of things I am actually after with this, but to try to encapsulate the concern briefly: which thinkers or writers might comment on the relationship between animals and human ...
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Adequate Animal Housing and the Naturalistic Fallacy [closed]
Many animal rights activists claim that adequate animal housing should be geared towards the natural environment of animals. For example, they claim that monkeys should be not kept within human's ...
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Is absolute ethical veganism an irrational position?
I have a handful of friends who are strictly vegan, and I talked with each of them before about their views. At least 3 of them have said to me that under no circumstance would they eat an animal or ...
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