Animal Ethics
Ed Duvin - The Father of the no-kill movement.
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BBC Animal Ethics - The most difficult part of animal
rights and welfare for human beings has been summed up by Colin
McGinn:
...it is important to see that animals are not defined by their
relation to us. Most animals, after all, have lived out their spans
in sublime indifference to the habits of those odd chattering bipeds
with the removable plumage. Even if we had never existed, they would
still be here. We are just as accidental to them as they are to us.
Social Research, Vol. 62, 1995.”
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Brute Ethics - Brute Ethics is an encyclopedia about
animal ethics - understanding animal-human issues through knowledge
and reasoning and acting for the good. Animal ethic encompasses
animal rights, animal welfare, nature conservation and applied
ethics. This site should appeal to you if you have an inquiring mind
and especially if you have an interest in animal life.
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The Animals and
Society Institute - is a
nonprofit, independent research and educational organization that
advances the status of animals in public policy, and promotes the study
of human-animal relationships. The ASI seeks to advance institutional
change for animals by helping to establish the moral and legal rights
fundamental to a just, compassionate and peaceful society.
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Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics -
We cannot change the world for animals
without changing our ideas about them. Philosophers have led the way in
helping us to think differently about animals. Academics should now lead
the way in furthering ethical attitudes and contributing to informed
public debate. Our concern is to establish an unashamedly elite school
of academics able to make an effective ethical case for animals. The
Centre is opposed to violence and illegality, and will not appoint
Fellows or Associates who advocate violence.
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Animal Ethics by Angelia Brown, Graduate
Student Ferris State University - Grand Rapids Campus - Active
involvement and attention to animal ethics has the potential to have a
significant impact on domestic and global conditions within our society
and our environment.
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Animal Law - Professor Francione has
developed a theory of animal rights that relies only on the sentience of
nonhumans and that requires the abolition, and not merely the
regulation, of animal exploitation.
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Stop Animal Tests - Ask the experimenters
why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals
are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment
on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.'
Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
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The Origin of Speciesism - I am a speciesist. Speciesism is not
merely plausible, it is essential for right conduct.
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Peter Singer - Do animals other than humans
feel pain? The overwhelming majority of scientists who have addressed
themselves to this question agree.
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The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Animals exist on the
borderline of our moral concepts; the result is that we sometimes find
ourselves according them a strong moral status, while at others denying
them any kind of moral status at all. What place should animals have in
an acceptable moral system?
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Tom Regan - Regan's seminal work, The Case for Animal
Rights, is one of the most influential works on the topic of
animals and ethics. Regan argues for the claim that animals have
rights in just the same way that human beings do.
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Culture and Animals - The other animals humans eat, use in
science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life
of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility
to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What
happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better
or worse for the one whose life it is.
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Universal Declaration of Animal Rights - All animals have equal
rights to exist within the context of biological equilibrium. This
equality of rights does not overshadow the diversity of species and
of individuals.
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British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection - (BUAV) is
a British animal protection group based in
London, which campaigns for the complete abolition of all animal
experiments. BUAV engages in education, research, lobbying,
investigations, including undercover work in laboratories, and legal
cases that further the cause of the anti-vivisection movement. It
also promotes non-animal alternatives.
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Richard D. Ryder is a British psychologist who, after
performing psychology experiments on animals, began to speak out
against the practice, and became one of the pioneers of the modern
animal liberation movement. Ryder calls his current position on the
moral status of non-human animals painism, arguing that all beings
who feel pain deserve rights. Painism can be seen as a third way
between Peter Singer's utilitarian position and Tom Regan's
deontological rights view. It combines the utilitarian view that
moral status comes from the ability to feel pain with the rights
view prohibition on using others as a means to our ends.
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Andrew Linzey - The name of Andrew Linzey is now so firmly
associated with the Christian movement for animal rights that it
appears all over the world wherever groups or campaigns are in
action.
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Dr. Michael W. Fox - Animal rights advocates today
challenge the logic and ethics of not according animals equal
rights, animals used as companions having infinitely more rights
than animals used as commodities. This call for equal rights means
that all domesticated and captive wild animals should be kept under
conditions appropriate to their natures, conducive to their physical
health and mental well being because their basic physiological and
psychological needs are provided for.
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All Creatures - Don’t feel discouraged or feel that you
are unable to create change for any reason such as being too young,
too old, have too little time, or isolated from the consensus. You
might feel that there are special circumstances personally impeding
you from opportunities and the ability to effectively make a
difference.
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