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Eating animals the nice way.(evaluating the so-called 'benign carnivorism and its impact on animal rights)(Critical essay)
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Daedalus
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- McMahan, Jeff
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Many people are opposed to factory farming because of the terrible suffering it inflicts on animals, yet see no objection to eating animals that are killed painlessly after having been reared in conditions that are at least no worse, and are perhaps even better, than typical conditions in the wild. Let us refer to this latter practice, in which animals are reared for human consumption but in humane conditions, as 'benign carnivorism.' When philosophers discuss the morality of this practice, they sometimes argue that, unlike animals killed by hunters, animals that are raised to be killed and eaten would never have existed if we had not created them in order to eat them. If ...
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Man's best friend (A Non-Owner's Manual).(Animals As Persons: Essays on...
Science & Spirit;
May 1, 2008 ;
Manseau, Peter;
708 words
...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Animals As Persons: Essays on the Abolition...Francione applies to humanity's regard for animals. It's a love/eat relationship, after...Press, nearly half of Americans consider animals to be just like humans in all important...
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Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. (Reviews of...
Albion;
December 22, 2002 ;
Kean, Hilda;
787 words
...Christine Kenyon-Jones. Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Burlington...cultural and historical depiction of animals in British society. As Kenyon-Jones elaborates, different texts depicted animals in a variety of ways and her detailed...
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A history of the treatment of animals traces its shift from cruel to...
The Washington Post;
July 20, 2008 ;
Jonathan Yardley;
787 words
...FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement...Royal Society held the position that "animals existed to provide humans with food...mainstream western tradition of thinking about animals" held "the belief, most influentially...
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Care of animals
The Press;
January 7, 1999 ;
626 words
...For animals, the summer holidays are far from favourable. At this time of year...by the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It says some animals that were Christmas gifts found themselves for a while the centre...
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What animals know in disaster; Researchers ask if they give early...
The Washington Times;
November 10, 2005 ;
787 words
......Waters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The idea that animals can sense imminent danger is likely more...Suthers-McCabe. It isn't surprising that animals fled the scene of last December's Asian...University in Blacksburg. Of course the animals could sense it, Dr. Suthers-McCabe says...
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Blessing of animals good for heart and soul ; Custom connected to St....
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;
October 1, 2006 ;
Karen Walters;
286 words
......Kirsten Marek has seen the relationships animals can have with God and how pets can be a blessing...has experienced the connection with her own animals and through her work as a veterinarian. "Animals are very aware of God's presence," she said...
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Animals and the capacity to care.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
Science and Children;
September 1, 2007 ;
Ohana, Chris;
551 words
...Not all animals are cute. Would a crowd of children materialize...similar experiences to help them appreciate animals that are critical elements of our environments...inquiry-based study of invertebrates, animals that comprise 97% of all animal species...
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Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals
Herizons;
July 1, 1998 ;
Anonymous;
429 words
...BEYOND BOUNDARIES: HUMANS AND ANIMALS In the famous case of a boy raised by gazelles, the child...Barbara Noske posits in Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals, then perhaps "animals and humans cannot be radically different." And yet, many...
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NONFICTION; Relating to animals and their ways, naturally; The animal...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);
January 15, 2006 ;
Winegar, Karin;
568 words
......Special to the Star Tribune People who love animals often praise how they help them live or...they get. My animal saves me, they say. Animals saved Temple Grandin, and she in turn...school and social life hard, but it made animals easy, she explains in Animals in Translation...
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Readers weigh in on animals and souls.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
May 23, 2001 ;
Schaefer, Tom;
723 words
......seems like an off-the-wall question: Do animals have souls? No doubt most pet owners love their animals. But do they really believe that their little...wrote Dan Kirkhuff. Although dogs and other animals demonstrate this to a degree, the human...
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PAWING OPEN THE COURTHOUSE DOOR: WHY ANIMALS' INTERESTS SHOULD MATTER WHEN...
St. John's Law Review;
January 1, 2006 ;
Magnotti, Lauren;
787 words
......difference in mind between man and the higher animals ... is one of degree and not of kind. We have...which man boasts, may be found ... in the lower animals." -Charles Darwin1 INTRODUCTION Animals do not have legal personhood and are treated...
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RESEARCH ANIMALS GET GOOD CARE.(Editorial)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);
April 21, 2000 ;
787 words
......say most Americans accept that research animals are needed to advance medical science, many people feel squeamish thinking about animals used in experimentation. Bad press and...specifying the care required for research animals, as well as the conditions under which...
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Teaching about animals: reflections on teaching to address the gaps...
Science and Children;
September 1, 2007 ;
Palmeri, Amy;
787 words
...When asking about animals, it is hard to find a person who doesn...dolphins, snakes, or ladybugs. A study of animals in an early childhood classroom, then...share a familiarity with and interest in animals, engaging in a meaningful study of animals...
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The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;
July 1, 2003 ;
Findly, Ellison;
787 words
......Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals. By PAUL WALDAU. American Academy of Religion...important book is a study of the views of animals in the early Buddhist and Christian traditions...speciesism, the inclusion of all human ... animals within, and the exclusion of all other...
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More compassion for animals helps all.(Commentary/Editorial)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
July 11, 2008 ;
597 words
...Byline: Marc Bekoff Our relationships with animals other than ourselves are complicated...place. When people tell me that they love animals and then harm or kill them, I tell them I'm glad they don't love me. We observe animals, gawk at them in wonder, experiment on...
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