tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59793131936484485212024-02-07T04:19:49.501-08:00Read Animal EthicsBlog of the Animal Ethics Reading and Discussion Group. Features essays by philosophers on human duties to nonhuman animals and an extensive bibliography of books and articles on this topic.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-88572577660126286422012-12-17T19:32:00.001-08:002012-12-18T12:36:58.273-08:00Bernard Rollin on the Ethics of Animal Research<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2002540/#b6">Read the essay.</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Rollin">About Bernard Rollin</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-80596926530501050142012-12-17T19:16:00.001-08:002012-12-17T19:17:24.331-08:00Aquatic animals, cognitive ethology, and ethics: questions about sentience and other troubling issues that lurk in turbid water by Marc Bekoff<a href="http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploadedImages/PEG/Campaigns/tuna-skipjack-585-mfk021611.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploadedImages/PEG/Campaigns/tuna-skipjack-585-mfk021611.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="http://www.int-res.com/articles/dao_oa/d075p087.pdf">Read the essay</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/marc-bekoff-phd">About the author</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-89723033897645835402012-12-14T14:18:00.004-08:002012-12-14T14:19:22.963-08:00MICHAEL MARDER AND GARY FRANCIONE DEBATE PLANT ETHICS<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Recent work in moral theory has seen the refinement of theories of moral standing, which increasingly recognize a position of intermediate standing between fully self-conscious entities and those which are merely conscious. Among the most sophisticated concepts now used to denote such intermediate standing is that of primitive self-consciousness, which has been used to more precisely elucidate the m</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">oral standing of human newborns. New research into the structure of the avian brain offers a revised view of the cognitive abilities of birds. When this research is approached with a species-specific focus, it appears likely that one familiar species, the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), also exhibits primitive self-consciousness. Given the likelihood that they are primitively self-consciousness, chickens warrant a degree of moral standing that falls short of that enjoyed by persons, but which exceeds the minimal standing of merely conscious entities.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Read the </span></span><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2066265_code849565.pdf?abstractid=2066265&mirid=1" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">complete author's draft (PDF).</span></a></h1>
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Professor Tom Regan is an American Philosopher who specialises in animal rights theory. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. He received his M.A. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1966. He taught philosophy at NC State University from 1967 until 2001. During his more than thirty years on the faculty, he received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, was named University Alumni Distinguished Professor, published hundreds of professional papers and more than twenty books, won major international awards for film writing and direction, and has presented hundreds of lectures throughout the world. In 2000, he received the William Quarles Holliday Medal, the highest honor NC State University can bestow.<br />
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Among his books, two, <i>The Case for Animal Rights</i> and <i>Bloomsbury’s Prophet: G. E. Moore and the Development of his Moral Philosophy</i>, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. <i>The Case for Animal Rights</i> was immediately recognized as a ground-breaking text when it first appeared in 1983. It makes the case for a rights-based position on human-animal relations and challenges utilitarian views on the human treatment and use of other animals. “<i>The Case”</i> has been translated into Italian, Swedish, Dutch, German and Chinese. <br />
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Other of Tom Regan’s animal rights books include <i>All That Dwell Therein: Essays on Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics</i> (1982); <i>Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science</i> (1986), <i>The Struggle for Animal Rights</i> (1987), <i>The Thee Generation: Reflections on the Coming Revolution</i> (1991), <i>Defending Animal Rights</i> (2001), <i>Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights</i> (2004), and (with Carl Cohen) <i>The Animal Rights Debate</i> (2001).<br />
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There are a number of videos featuring Prof. Regan, including this clip from a 1989 debate at the Royal Institute of Great Britain - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADhNch30Img">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADhNch30Img</a> - and this lecture from the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2006 - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNNJspZXA4&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNNJspZXA4&feature=related</a><br />
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Tom Regan is married to Nancy Regan, with whom he co-founded <a href="http://cultureandanimals.org/">The Culture & Animals Foundation</a>.<br />
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</tbody></table>Visit Animal Rights Zone at: <a href="http://arzone.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network">http://arzone.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-9513360735424875282011-03-11T17:22:00.000-08:002011-03-11T17:22:02.805-08:00IF SLAUGHTERHOUSES HAD GLASS WALLS… A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD STILL EAT MEAT.<span style="font-size: x-small;">If all that was needed to convince people to stop eating animals was to expose them to the horrors of factory farms and slaughterhouses, every person who has ever seen a video on the meat industry would be a vegan. The dominant view of our culture is that humans are entitled to use nonhuman animals in service to our needs. The growing popularity of “humane meat” speaks to our movement’s success in exposing the horrors of the factory farm – and our utter failure to challenge the underlying idea that animals are ours to use for food. If we want to truly abolish the meat industry rather than simply generating business for “happy meat” mongers, we need to attack animal oppression at its foundation by challenging the premise that human interests take precedence over those of nonhuman animals and that animals exist for our use.</span> <div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="top"> I broadcast Part I of a 3 Part series of my interview with John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/GSteiner/" style="color: #cc6600;" target="_blank" title="Professor Gary Steiner"><b>Gary Steiner</b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on his book "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822961199?ie=UTF8&tag=impeacbushthe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822961199" style="color: #cc6600;" target="_blank" title="Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents"><b>Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals In the History of Western Philosophy</b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>". This extensive interview covers the major players in the development of the our moral disposition and the way we view and, therefore, treat animals.<br />
This interview will lay the foundation for a series of interviews on human and other-than-human animal relations with the intent to increase interspecies understanding, cooperation and justice.<br />
<h4 style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Audio/Prof_Steiner_012411_Part1_mix.mp3" style="color: #cc6600;">Listen to Interview with Prof Steiner: Part 1 >></a></h4><br />
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not to be confused with Thomas Taylor's 1823 translation of <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/selectworksporp00taylgoog#page/n4/mode/2up">Porphyry's On Abstinence from Animal Food</a>. <br />
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More on the latter shortly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-46731454243543011652011-01-26T01:10:00.000-08:002011-01-26T01:10:32.693-08:00Audio Inteview with Animals and Ethics Author Angus Taylor<a href="http://animalvoices.ca/2010/04/27/animals-and-ethics-mapping-the-debate-with-angus-taylor/">http://animalvoices.ca/2010/04/27/animals-and-ethics-mapping-the-debate-with-angus-taylor/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-84007033993799585302011-01-25T12:56:00.000-08:002011-01-25T22:07:46.696-08:00Watch Animal Ethics: Our New Video Page!Expect this to be continually expanded.<br />
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<a href="http://readanimalethics.blogspot.com/p/videos.html">http://readanimalethics.blogspot.com/p/videos.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-44684733667785586172011-01-23T08:32:00.000-08:002011-01-23T08:32:58.919-08:00THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN BEINGS AND OTHER ANIMALS IN HUMAN-NONHUMAN RELATIONS. Welfarism and Rights: A Contemporary Sociological Analysis. by Roger Yates 2004<a href="http://roger.rbgi.net/">http://roger.rbgi.net/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-91293123748920256242011-01-21T00:59:00.000-08:002011-01-25T11:55:04.820-08:00Animal Theology and Ethical Concerns by Richard Wade<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><b><strong style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_2/wade.htm">http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_2/wade.htm</a></span></strong></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-57870144581375440902011-01-20T20:15:00.000-08:002011-01-20T20:15:02.996-08:00How to Do Animal Rights - And Win the War on Animals: Chapter. 2: Know Your Animal Ethics & Animal Rights<a href="http://www.animalethics.org.uk/i-ch2-1-animalethics.html">http://www.animalethics.org.uk/i-ch2-1-animalethics.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-22341196068736722452011-01-20T20:09:00.000-08:002011-01-21T09:24:31.862-08:00Activities for Animal Rights: Philosopher<a href="http://www.animalethics.org.uk/i-ch4-8-philosopher.html">http://www.animalethics.org.uk/i-ch4-8-philosopher.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-10883204901736171132011-01-20T20:05:00.000-08:002011-01-20T20:05:08.306-08:00YBGud - Speciesism<a href="http://www.ybgud.net/challenge/disc-issues-speciesism.html#6bi">http://www.ybgud.net/challenge/disc-issues-speciesism.html#6bi</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-49616861795286448102011-01-18T07:53:00.000-08:002011-01-18T07:56:37.946-08:00Animal Ethics from the Right #2 - Roger ScrutonBritish philosopher Roger Scruton is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and is the author of books including <a href="http://www.staugustine.net/meaningofconservatism.html">The Meaning of Conservatism</a> and <a href="http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcrim_attorney/DefendantSearch">A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism</a>, among many others.<br />
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In his book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FxY-sCM6XmwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=animal+rights+and+wrongs&hl=en&ei=2q01TZD8BoKs8Abh_sjaCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">Animal Rights and Wrongs</a>, Scruton applies a fairly complex set of criterion to moral decisionmaking and consequently reaches uncommon conclusions. He opposes zoos and factory farms and is skeptical of vivisection, yet has a somewhat mixed view of bullfighting, views hunting, particularly hunting with hounds, as favorable when conducted with the proper attitude, and staunchly defends the rearing and slaughter of animals for food outside of factory systems.<br />
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In her book, Ethics, Humans, and Other Animals, Rosalind Hursthouse points to considerations that go unaddressed in Scruton's work. She very lightly implies that he may that this may be a consequence of Scruton, an avid fox hunter, seeking to rationalize his hobby.<br />
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A well-cited section of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton">Scruton's Wikipedia page</a> supports Hursthouse's implication that Scruton may not be above constructing arguments in service to an ulterior motive of self interest.<br />
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"<i>In January 2002 The Guardian reported that an October 2001 e-mail from Scruton to an executive at Japan Tobacco International (JTI) showed him requesting £5,500 ($7,800) a month to place pro-smoking articles in several newspapers. He requested an increase of £1,000 over his existing monthly fee of £4,500 ($6,400), and discussed his aim of getting opinion pieces published every two months in several newspapers—including </i><i>The Wall Street Journal, </i><i>The Times, </i><i>The Daily Telegraph, and </i><i>The Financial Times—on "major topics of current concern" to the tobacco industry. Scruton objected to </i><i>The Guardian's use of a leaked email, which he said had been stolen, and said he had never concealed his connection with JTI, which had started three years earlier. He told the newspaper the new proposal was never acted upon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#cite_note-36">[37]</a></sup></i><br />
<i>As a result of the article, </i><i>The Financial Times ended Scruton's contract as a columnist on country life.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#cite_note-37">[38]</a></sup></i> <i>The Wall Street Journal, for whom Scruton had written since 1996, suspended his contributions for having failed to disclose his relationship with JTI.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Stille_38-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#cite_note-Stille-38">[39]</a></sup> The </i><i>British Medical Journal (BMJ) criticized him for having failed to declare the relationship when he wrote a 65-page pamphlet, "WHO, What and Why" (2000), for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Economic_Affairs" title="Institute of Economic Affairs">Institute of Economic Affairs</a>, a British think tank, about the World Health Organization's (WHO) campaign against smoking; according to </i><i>The New York Times, Scruton did not tell the Institute for Economic Affairs that he was receiving an income from JTI.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Stille_38-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#cite_note-Stille-38">[39]</a></sup> In the pamphlet Scruton criticized the WHO for focusing on tobacco instead of vaccination campaigns and diseases.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#cite_note-39">[40]</a></sup> He wrote an editorial along similar lines for </i><i>The Wall Street Journal, and his arguments were picked up by </i><i>The Times and </i><i>The Scotsman in what the </i><i>BMJ<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bmj_40-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton#cite_note-bmj-40">[41]"</a></sup></i> <i>said appeared to be a pro-tobacco campaign. Scruton told the BMJ that he had written the pamphlet because of his long-standing concerns about legislative powers being transferred to transnational institutions, not with the aim of exonerating tobacco; he acknowledged that, with hindsight, he should have declared an interest."</i><br />
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The complete text of Scruton's Animal Rights and Wrongs is available free online <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=FxY-sCM6XmwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=animal+rights+and+wrongs&hl=en&ei=2q01TZD8BoKs8Abh_sjaCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">here</a>.<br />
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Scruton's website can be visited <a href="http://www.roger-scruton.com/">here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979313193648448521.post-14651233814745743962011-01-17T22:08:00.000-08:002011-01-17T22:08:07.501-08:00Animal Ethics from the Right - Matthew ScullyAs stated previously, this blog seeks to showcase a diverse spectrum of views on ethical issues concerning nonhuman animals. By posting articles on the blog, we are neither endorsing the views expressed in those articles nor are we endorsing the authors of those articles. Many of the books in our book list, for example, are explicitly anti-animal liberation. It is in this spirit that after presenting a series of posts on animal ethics from the left, we now post one from a conservative viewpoint. <br />
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Matthew Scully, author of <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/dominion-1"><span id="btAsinTitle">Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy</span></a><br />
<span id="btAsinTitle">is </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: small;">a contributor and former editor at <i>National Review, </i>was</span><span id="btAsinTitle"> special assistant and deputy director of speechwriting President George W. Bush and has worked as a speechwriter for Sarah Palin. You can read excerpts of the book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=_htG-Pi2GboC&printsec=frontcover&dq=dominion&hl=en&ei=sCU1Tc2yFoP78AbBy6GwCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">His article <a href="http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Scully.pdf">"Fear Factories: The Case for Compassionate Conservatism—for Animals"</a> was the cover story in the May 23, 2005 issue of American Conservative.</span><br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">Scully was i<a href="http://old.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory120602.asp">nterviewed by National Review Online</a> on December 3, 2003 </span><span id="btAsinTitle">and partipated in an online chat on the Washington Post's website on August 25, 2004 (read transscript <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/advertisers/viewpoint_aspca082504.htm?nav=archive">here</a>). </span><br />
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