Animal Ethics

JUNE 9, 2008

Hare has impressed upon me, simply this: philosophy is concerned with testing arguments for soundness, and the occupation of the philosopher is to carry out this testing. Note 2 from KBJ: Frey says that "philosophy is concerned with testing arguments for soundness." It is, as R. That may not seem like a lot, but it is.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons—ethical, economic and health-related—to continue this lifestyle. He stated that the department could demand mandatory testing, but that it had to consider what effect that would have on companies as well as consumers.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

coli O157:H7 in ground beef samples tested by the Agriculture Department has declined by 80 percent to a fraction of a percent, a level once thought impossible. Today’s meat plants operate in carefully controlled, high-tech environments that approach operating-room levels of sanitation. Since 1999, the incidence of E.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

Orlando; Dallas; and Phoenix have tested positive for an array of pharmaceuticals — analgesics, antibiotics, antidepressants, antihistamines, anti-hypertension drugs and anti-seizure medications. According to the column, more than 100 different pharmaceutical compounds have turned up in surface water around the world.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 11, 2008

I suspect that the moral judgments most of us make about animals do pass these phenomenological tests, so that most of us do believe that animals have rights, but are reluctant to say so because of the conceptual confusions about the notion of a right that I have attempted to dispel above.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

To the Editor: Your editorial states: “The government seems to think it is enough that the harm caused by the animal-cruelty depictions outweighs their social value, but the First Amendment does not say that Congress can restrict speech if it fails a balancing test.” Lawrence A. Mandelker New York, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to the AP story, nine of ten jackets tested by HSUS were found to have trim made of dog fur, but were mislabeled in violation of federal law. Though these jackets originally arrived with the label "raccoon fur" on them, they were falsely marketed to consumers as "faux fur."

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