The following essay was written by Tim Gier in a blog post dated August, 2010. What does it matter? With all the pain and suffering in the world, where children go hungry and women are beaten and raped, what does it matter that McDonald’s serves hamburgers and Red Lobster filets flounders? Where on the scales [...]
Many people think that moral choices are always obvious, but it only takes a brief glimpse into history to see that they definitely are not. Slave owners were just normal human beings. We balk at the thought, because we do not want to believe that we are capable of such immorality. We would much rather [...]
Excerpted from On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal-Rights Philosophy Down To Earth by Lee Hall Animal welfare means, in ordinary conversation, the well-being of non-human animals. We’ll use the term here in this ordinary, common sense, referring to a caring ethic for any animals who are unable to fend on their own and thus dependent [...]
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
“It is only by the spread of the same democratic spirit that animals can enjoy the ‘rights’ for which even [humans] have for so long struggled in vain. The emancipation of [humans] from cruelty and injustice will bring with it in due course the emancipation of animals also. The two reforms are inseparably connected, and [...]