Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2013

According to the Guardian , the new pope (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) took his name from Saint Francis of Assisi (depicted above), who is the patron saint of animals. billion adherents, to drive home the point that animals are not resources for human use but fellow denizens of the planet, with lives, a good, and a dignity of their own.

Animal

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2007

Those who continue to abuse every animal and natural resource for their own pleasures will come to represent the ugly. To the Editor: Re “ Uncruel Beauty ” (Thursday Styles, Jan. Some day it will be the ultimate in chic to be a compassionate consumer. Kat McAfee Princeton, N.J., 12, 2007 Note from KBJ: You are what you wear.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

A copy of the paper was deposited with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in East Lansing, where I did much of my research, but it has never been published. Would anyone be interested in reading it? If so, I can scan, upload, and link to it in this blog.

Michigan

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? Someone might argue that there is no incompatibility between (1) working to decrease animal suffering and (2) working toward the abolition of factory farming.

Factory Farming

Animal Ethics

MARCH 14, 2007

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?) and their bodies dismembered and processed.

Factory Farming

Animal Ethics

APRIL 15, 2007

Whaling for scientific research is indispensable to establish the proper conservation of whales and ocean resources. To the Editor: Re “ Japan’s Whaling Obsession ” (editorial, April 1): Japan strongly supports the international protection of endangered whale species and advocates for the sustainable harvest of species in abundance only.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

There is only one way to avoid future noncompliance and free city resources that are already spread too thin —institute a ban. Now that the carriage industry is being held under a microscope, it’s clear that it puts a black mark on the city. Jackie Vergerio Portsmouth, Va.,

New York Times

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

Those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and the web of life. About Dot Earth By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today. In Dot Earth, reporter Andrew C.

Whales

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I still think of this blog mainly as a resource for scholars, which is why I added a bibliography. There have been 42,820 visitors to the blog in three years. That's an average of 39 visitors per day. During much of that time, I posted only rarely. Mylan recently provided a list of additional books, which I will add in due course.

Animal

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 10, 2008

When the population of any species, including Homo sapiens, grows so quickly and consumes so many resources, it is clear that the effect on other life will be staggering. To the Editor: Re “ One in 4 Mammals Threatened With Extinction, Group Finds ” (news article, Oct.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 1, 2008

If the land ethic were only a means of managing nature for the sake of man, misleadingly phrased in moral terminology, then man would be considered as having an ultimate value essentially different from that of his "resources."

Animal Liberation

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on species, which are the basis of ecosystems that give us fresh air, water and countless other natural resources necessary for human well-being worldwide. The huge financial bailout package has been put in place in record time. Mittermeier President, Conservation International Arlington, Va., 16, 2008

New York Times

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. How does the health of a farmer’s family and community figure in when they are making the decision to continue industrialized production methods?

New York Times

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2007

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. Does anything change? It seems to me that it doesn't. But why should any of this matter? Should we base public policy on envy?

Welfare

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

The National Resources Defense Council's lawsuit alleges the Navy's sonar causes whales and other mammals to beach themselves." The court found that using mid-frequency active sonar violated the Coastal Zone Management Act and Bush exempted the Navy from a section of that act.

Los Angeles

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 9, 2007

All of us are entitled to spend our money in animal-friendly ways. (If If you want, you can think of this as "punishing" those who use animals as resources.) I've been a proponent of animal rights for more than a quarter of a century. I am convinced that the best means of change, in the long run, is rational persuasion.

Laws

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Why not try it for yourself for 21 days?

Lacto-Ovo

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Unless we start taking wildlife crime seriously and allocate the resources necessary to tackle a sophisticated and well-financed global criminal network, elephants and other charismatic species will continue their tragic slide into oblivion. ELIZABETH L.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I wish scientists would inform the public of all the consequences of global warming, so that the public can decide for itself whether to expend its scarce resources in preventing it. Whether a given change is good or bad, all things considered, depends on its consequences (and how these are evaluated).

Laws

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

To protest against the rights view that justice applies only to moral agents, or only to human beings, and that we are within our rights when we treat animals as renewable resources, or replaceable receptacles, or tools, or models, or things—to protest in these terms is not to meet the challenge the rights view places before those who would reject (..)

Animal Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

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. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values. There is another reason that could be given for not eating meat in view of the present inhumane treatment of animals. It would be a way of protesting present practice, a way of saying, “I disagree strongly with the treatment of animals used for food.”

Vegetarian