1. The Post-Darwinian Transition, by David Pearce
Ethics and
Animals : Oxford, Clarendon 1990); and, rather incongruously,
philosopher Peter Carruthers' The Animals Issue . Carruthers
advances the thesis that the mental states of Animals are all
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2. All Animals Are Equal, by Peter Singer
most fundamental attitudes. We need to consider them from the
point of view of those most disadvantaged by our attitudes, and
the practices that follow from these attitudes. If we can make
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3. Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement, by Peter Singer
us that we have no duties towards animals. This
interpretation was accepted by Thomas Aquinas, who stated that the
only possible objection to cruelty to animals was that it might
lead to cruelty to
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4. Persons and Non-Persons, by Mary Midgley
certainly implies -that animals
are things. He does say in his lecture on 'Duties Towards animals
and Spirits' that they 'are not self-conscious and are there
merely as a means to an end', that end
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5. Dietethics: Its Influence on Future Farming Patterns, by Jon Wynne-Tyson
the world's land supply, the animals themselves, even in
these days of "factory-farming," still need further huge areas for
pasture. About four-fifths of the world's agricultural land is
used
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6. What's in a Classification?, by R. I. M. Dunbar
terms, but their attitudes towards subject peoples was often
virtually the same. At least one likely reason for this is that it
allows us to define the categories of organisms that we can
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7. Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option, ...
general attitude towards farm animals as property. The animals'
welfare and our desire to have high-quality meat are in direct
conflict: well-exercised animals produce stringy meat; their
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8. Against Zoos, by Dale Jamieson
of various animals? Attitudes towards the survival of endangered
species? Compassion for the fate of all animals? To what degree
does education require keeping wild animals in captivity?
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9. Animal Rights in the Political Arena, by Clive Hollands
and behave, and of their attitudes towards each
other. . . . When public attitudes change, the law changes also.
But it is unlikely to change immediately because the change of
attitude may be long in
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10. Sentientism, by Richard Ryder
Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism (Basil Blackwell,
Oxford, 1989), p. 72.
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