to health; it is possible to give excellent
treatment even to those who can never enjoy sound ... is an offshoot of dialectic and also of
ethical studies. Ethical studies may fairly be called political;
and ... Pleasure,
again, must be a good thing, since it is the nature of all animals
to aim at it.
industrialized
treatment of animals is terrible, but my abstaining from eating
chicken isn't going to save the chickens. Besides, meat tastes too
good and is too good for me to stop eating it. If I had to kill the
animals myself, I probably wouldn't eat them. But I don't have to.
That's an ethical
you should understand that I consider
myself to be a zoophile , and fit all the definitions of the word,
both sexual and ethical. ... I am a
vegetarian because I can not stand the mistreatment of animals or
abuse of animals, among other reasons.
I love
animals, but I hate PETA with a passion that knows no limits. They
say they're for the "Ethical Treatment of Animals" yet they kill
more animals than they save, and countless PETA members have been
fined or jailed for animal cruelty.
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PETA is also against all medical
research that requires the use of animals.2. Despite its constant
moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by restaurant
owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other
Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and cats at its
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we have as individuals is to be at the very least, ethical
consumers. Now for some of us, paying more for the assurance of
organic humane/ethically processed food is not an issue. ... the work that Temple Grandin has done so far, to
name one pinnacle person in the humane treatment of farm animals.
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a group of personal choice if you are
out to change the *cough cough* ethical *cough cough* beliefs of
others through legal sanctions. 3.) You cannot equate acts of
cruelty (such as the meat industry, yada yada) towards animals to
the horrendous conditions of the Holocaust (Oh, you didn't know?
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decision making, and see that
our ethical choices should lie on much more ... of
equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires
equal consideration. Equal consideration for different beings may
lead to different treatment and different rights” (“All Animals Are
Equal” 29).
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coats or leather
shoes, and to use animals in research—even if it would lead to
cures for deadly diseases. The terrorists are unmoved by the
indisputable fact that animal research saves human lives. PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) makes this
frighteningly clear: "Even if animal
Comment by ambitious_ideal
Kill Animals"Yes, actually, it does. I know, it's
ridiculous since you and I are internally consistent and logical,
we would think that people for ethical treatment would consider
KILLING someone in fact unethical. PETA, however, is not rational.
PETA Euthenises 10's of thousands of animals every
Comment by jcleveng3r
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of AnimalsPETA - People
Enjoying Tasty Animals.
Comment by Nerdyvegan
Before the divergence of plants and animals? I'm sorry, but I don't
recognize any ethical considerations needed for bacteria. And I
wouldn't have been here to make one.Ethical treatment of plants is
different from the ethical treatment of animals, surely.
Comment by
Ethical
treatment of plants is different from the ethical treatment of
animals, surely. Just as ethical treatment of animals differs
from species to species due to their different needs and responses.
Comment by icanhelp
For example, you say:You want ethical treatment of animals, but you
want to claim they are stupid and beneath you also. I do not
believe that animals are beneath me any more so than I think any
person is beneath me. I don't really rate animals, including
humans hierarchically.
Comment by Nerdyvegan
Is it ethical to kill, if there is no necessity to? ... Again, why seek "humane" treatment for animals, and not
plants?Are you familiar with the fact that animals and plants
diverged at the unicellular stage over 500 million years ago? That
animals share our evolutionary heritage in
Comment by Nerdyvegan
The point of my ethical matrix
above, and I think you missed it, is that we have much more
confidence in the capacity for suffering of animals than for
plants, and giving up animals but not plants represents a much more
minor ... and do as a result of typical
treatment in the meat industry, we can