Eaton, David: Incorporating the Other:Val
... Adams’ discussion of whether feminist conferences should be vegetarian does include statements that, taken out of context, may problematise my argument that her claims are not universal claims. It is important to look closely at these, as with the passage Plumwood refers to: The position that femin ...
... Adams’ discussion of whether feminist conferences should be vegetarian does include statements that, taken out of context, may problematise my argument that her claims are not universal claims. It is important to look closely at these, as with the passage Plumwood refers to: The position that femin ...
Measuring what matters - International Fund for Animal Welfare
... The entire web of life is interconnected and we should be motivated to protect animals because our actions are the greatest threat to their survival and their extinction is the greatest threat to ours. We realize that there are people who are moved to save animals because they believe that animals h ...
... The entire web of life is interconnected and we should be motivated to protect animals because our actions are the greatest threat to their survival and their extinction is the greatest threat to ours. We realize that there are people who are moved to save animals because they believe that animals h ...
The Other Side of Silence: Rachel Carson`s Views of Animals
... the use of animals in experiments and the slaughtering of animals for human consumption are all right as long as these activities are conducted in a humane way. Welfarists do not want animals to suffer from any unnecessary pain but they sometimes disagree among themselves about what pain is necessar ...
... the use of animals in experiments and the slaughtering of animals for human consumption are all right as long as these activities are conducted in a humane way. Welfarists do not want animals to suffer from any unnecessary pain but they sometimes disagree among themselves about what pain is necessar ...
Valuing Predation in Rolston`s Environmental Ethics: Bambi Lovers
... most environmentalits that it is more important to protect the integrity of a species than to protect the individual members of a species (p. 151). For example, killing exotic brown trout who are outcompeting the endangered California golden trout in their native ecosystem is justified by this prefe ...
... most environmentalits that it is more important to protect the integrity of a species than to protect the individual members of a species (p. 151). For example, killing exotic brown trout who are outcompeting the endangered California golden trout in their native ecosystem is justified by this prefe ...
The Case for Intervention in Nature on Behalf of Animals
... The first thing we should note is that these authors do not show that intervention will necessarily have disastrous consequences; they simply take the truth of the second premise for granted. Perhaps it is a reasonable belief but some empirical data to support the assertion would be more than welcom ...
... The first thing we should note is that these authors do not show that intervention will necessarily have disastrous consequences; they simply take the truth of the second premise for granted. Perhaps it is a reasonable belief but some empirical data to support the assertion would be more than welcom ...
Environmental Risk Assessment - Health and Safety Directorate
... rooms therein should only be for authorised personnel. (g) Cages must be maintained in a good state of repair. (h) Room fabric must be kept clean and free of unnecessary rubbish as well as being in a good state of repair. The likelihood that GM animals could cause harm to humans, other animals or pl ...
... rooms therein should only be for authorised personnel. (g) Cages must be maintained in a good state of repair. (h) Room fabric must be kept clean and free of unnecessary rubbish as well as being in a good state of repair. The likelihood that GM animals could cause harm to humans, other animals or pl ...
Use of live traps to capture terrestrial vertebrates policy
... Elliott, cage and funnel traps must be carefully counted to ensure they have all been collected – every effort must be made to retrieve any missing traps. Critical Temperatures. Trapping should not take place during climatic extremes. Even for species adapted to the local environment, extreme heat ...
... Elliott, cage and funnel traps must be carefully counted to ensure they have all been collected – every effort must be made to retrieve any missing traps. Critical Temperatures. Trapping should not take place during climatic extremes. Even for species adapted to the local environment, extreme heat ...
Refusing Help and Inflicting Harm
... As we have seen, Schweitzer characterises the will to live in terms of mental states, that is, in terms of desires. If this characterisation is understood in a strict sense, then it is false that all living organisms have a will to live. This is because not all living organisms possess a capacity to ...
... As we have seen, Schweitzer characterises the will to live in terms of mental states, that is, in terms of desires. If this characterisation is understood in a strict sense, then it is false that all living organisms have a will to live. This is because not all living organisms possess a capacity to ...
here - Global Animal Network
... common. They are illegal in many countries but are permissible in others. Because birds are relatively cheap to keep and to replace, cock fighting is a common pastime in some parts of the world where people have low incomes. Related to dog fighting is bear baiting, which is thought to occur only in ...
... common. They are illegal in many countries but are permissible in others. Because birds are relatively cheap to keep and to replace, cock fighting is a common pastime in some parts of the world where people have low incomes. Related to dog fighting is bear baiting, which is thought to occur only in ...
Perpetual Strangers: Animals and the Cosmopolitan Right
... as potential meals, the idea that they can be eaten is shocking to us. On the one hand, the way that we respond to dogs as potential companion animals shows us that we can build meaningful and reciprocal relationships with other animals but, on the other hand, it demonstrates that such relationships ...
... as potential meals, the idea that they can be eaten is shocking to us. On the one hand, the way that we respond to dogs as potential companion animals shows us that we can build meaningful and reciprocal relationships with other animals but, on the other hand, it demonstrates that such relationships ...
2 Higher Animals: Duties to Sentient Life
... cognition, perception, experience, and behavior and to increased awareness of human kinship with animals. I t is due to alarm over increased and increasingly callous uses of animals in medicine, industry, and research. I t is due to revised religious beliefs. Animals have no immortal souls, but then ...
... cognition, perception, experience, and behavior and to increased awareness of human kinship with animals. I t is due to alarm over increased and increasingly callous uses of animals in medicine, industry, and research. I t is due to revised religious beliefs. Animals have no immortal souls, but then ...
Animals, Archetypes, and Popular Culture
... case with the man who traded his bride for a goat (NEx 4/14/87), the trainer who preferred to live with his bears (Sun 7/10/90), and a host of dotty spinsters who left their inheritances to their pets: “Fat Cat Inherits $240,000…and A Five Room House” (Sun 3/11/86). The Sun regularly features a writ ...
... case with the man who traded his bride for a goat (NEx 4/14/87), the trainer who preferred to live with his bears (Sun 7/10/90), and a host of dotty spinsters who left their inheritances to their pets: “Fat Cat Inherits $240,000…and A Five Room House” (Sun 3/11/86). The Sun regularly features a writ ...
Legal responsibilities for weeds and pest animals
... and pest animals Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 (Victoria) The main aim of the Act is to protect farms and primary production, Crown land, the environment and community health from the effects of noxious weeds and pest animals. The Act prohibits the movement and sale of species declared as n ...
... and pest animals Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 (Victoria) The main aim of the Act is to protect farms and primary production, Crown land, the environment and community health from the effects of noxious weeds and pest animals. The Act prohibits the movement and sale of species declared as n ...
habitat talks - Cotswold Wildlife Park
... them. Even so, much of what they eat passes straight through their system so they produce a large quantity of faeces. Zebra and giraffe have skin markings that are used for many things including intra specific recognition, heat control and camouflage. Giraffe are browsers and their mouths are adapte ...
... them. Even so, much of what they eat passes straight through their system so they produce a large quantity of faeces. Zebra and giraffe have skin markings that are used for many things including intra specific recognition, heat control and camouflage. Giraffe are browsers and their mouths are adapte ...
Pest Animals - Little River Landcare
... The NFACP is developing pest animal management techniques, regional management strategies, monitoring, extension materials and activities to facilitate the adoption of best management practices for pest animal management. Local Rural Lands Protection Boards (RLPB) also provide support for the contro ...
... The NFACP is developing pest animal management techniques, regional management strategies, monitoring, extension materials and activities to facilitate the adoption of best management practices for pest animal management. Local Rural Lands Protection Boards (RLPB) also provide support for the contro ...
Animals and Humans: Grounds for Separation?
... Gunnarsson argues that our obligations to fellow humans arise because the possibility of a distinctive kind of relationship generates duties. He characterizes a “human relationship” as “a relationship to a human in which it is intrinsic to the benefits of such a relationship that the relationship is ...
... Gunnarsson argues that our obligations to fellow humans arise because the possibility of a distinctive kind of relationship generates duties. He characterizes a “human relationship” as “a relationship to a human in which it is intrinsic to the benefits of such a relationship that the relationship is ...
DEBUNKING THE IDYLLIC VIEW OF NATURAL PROCESSES
... The reproductive strategies mentioned above have been selected for because they are successful when it comes to gene transmission. This means that most individuals are sacrificed for the sake of the transfer of genetic information to new generations. r-selection entails that for each individual who ...
... The reproductive strategies mentioned above have been selected for because they are successful when it comes to gene transmission. This means that most individuals are sacrificed for the sake of the transfer of genetic information to new generations. r-selection entails that for each individual who ...
REVIEW ESSAY
... longtime advocate for animals. So it is no surprise to find that her secondary agenda in Nature Ethics is to provide an ecofeminist framework for veganism. She links her two agendas this way: “Just as men under patriarchal society view women as their antithesis in the quest for masculine self-identi ...
... longtime advocate for animals. So it is no surprise to find that her secondary agenda in Nature Ethics is to provide an ecofeminist framework for veganism. She links her two agendas this way: “Just as men under patriarchal society view women as their antithesis in the quest for masculine self-identi ...
limiting factors
... A lot of limiting factors and a lot of animals are connected. If rabbits multiply in a field, they could eat all the grass, which leaves not enough for the cows, which start to die out. Then we get more foxes as they eat all the dead cows, which reduces rabbits again. That sort of thing. ...
... A lot of limiting factors and a lot of animals are connected. If rabbits multiply in a field, they could eat all the grass, which leaves not enough for the cows, which start to die out. Then we get more foxes as they eat all the dead cows, which reduces rabbits again. That sort of thing. ...
ANIMALS AND THE INTIMACY OF HISTORY
... issues that historians face when writing about nonhuman animals. Carnegie’s mangled body outraged McKean, the Field & Stream journalist, precisely because the young man was “human,” not an “animal” such as a moose or caribou. His anxieties exposed the carefully policed divide, between a hominid spec ...
... issues that historians face when writing about nonhuman animals. Carnegie’s mangled body outraged McKean, the Field & Stream journalist, precisely because the young man was “human,” not an “animal” such as a moose or caribou. His anxieties exposed the carefully policed divide, between a hominid spec ...
The predation argument
... the purpose of ending the suffering of animals on factory farms. By purchasing meat products, consumers do not themselves directly harm animals; rather this is done by the meat industry. The obligation which consumers have to become vegetarians, therefore, is not based upon the obligation to refrain ...
... the purpose of ending the suffering of animals on factory farms. By purchasing meat products, consumers do not themselves directly harm animals; rather this is done by the meat industry. The obligation which consumers have to become vegetarians, therefore, is not based upon the obligation to refrain ...
Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick
... and less painful in the barnyard than in the woods. Comparisons, sad as they are, must be made to recognize where a great opportunity lies to prevent or mitigate suffering. The misery of animals in nature which humans can do much to relieve - makes every other form of suffering pale in comparison. M ...
... and less painful in the barnyard than in the woods. Comparisons, sad as they are, must be made to recognize where a great opportunity lies to prevent or mitigate suffering. The misery of animals in nature which humans can do much to relieve - makes every other form of suffering pale in comparison. M ...
The Case for Hunting - Animal Studies Repository
... are simply young, sick, or old animals, of which none may be genetically inferior. I know of no research that supports the conclusion that hunting selects out the most fit individuals. In fact, theoretically speaking, a conclusion that hunters remove the most genetically fit animals by taking the la ...
... are simply young, sick, or old animals, of which none may be genetically inferior. I know of no research that supports the conclusion that hunting selects out the most fit individuals. In fact, theoretically speaking, a conclusion that hunters remove the most genetically fit animals by taking the la ...
The Symbiotic Nature of Animal Research
... of nature and it is those animals that otherwise would not have survived that we use. Although the reproductive rates of domestic animals could be reduced to compensate for their reduced mortality due to human protection, this, of course, would eliminate their usefulness to us and we would no longe ...
... of nature and it is those animals that otherwise would not have survived that we use. Although the reproductive rates of domestic animals could be reduced to compensate for their reduced mortality due to human protection, this, of course, would eliminate their usefulness to us and we would no longe ...