The traditional attitude toward animals is that:
An animal is merely a resource that humans may dispose of as they see fit; an animal has instrumental value only.
To say that an animal has moral status is to say that:
It is an object of direct oral consideration or concern, in and of itself.
Both Peter Singer and Jeremy Bentham hold that utilitarian calculations must take into account the pleasure and pain of all:
Sentient Creatures.
According to Peter Singer, those who do not give equal moral consideration to both human and nonhuman animals are guilty of:
Speciesism.
Today almost no one believes, as Rene Descartes did, that animals:
Are equivalent to windup clocks, mechanisms without feelings.
Suppose you believe, with Peter Singer, that we should give equal consideration for comparable interests. And suppose you also know that currently the meat industry (which uses factory farming) causes immense suffering to millions of sentient creatures to
The meat industry in its current form should be abolished, but if animals were treated more humanely, a new kind of meat industry might be morally permissible.
CONTRARY to Tom Reagan's view, our moral common sense suggests that accidentally running over a man with our car is?
Morally worse than doing the same to a rabbit.
Every year, snake charmers in India used reptiles to make money during the Hindu snake festival. But animal welfare activists protested that the snakes were being injured during the process and later killed. In this conflict, who would be likely to side w
Rene Descartes.
Mary Anne Warren says that human lives have greater intrinsic value than animal lives because human lives:
Are worth more to their possessors.
Animal rights activists waved a highly effective campaign against the practice of seal hunting, an activity that constituted the heart of Canadian Inuit culture and identity. The campaign devastated the Inuit economy and created a host of health, social,
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