61. Animal Ethics: Fallacy Update
what I’m saying. Dogs have a strong, innate preference for a meat-based diet, just as they have a strong, innate preference to be free rather than confined. A Dog can live a long life in a cage, but it will be horribly frustrated. A
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62. Animal Ethics: Confusions and Fallacies About Animals, Part 8
If you live with a dog or a cat, you are no better, morally, than a plantation owner in the ante-bellum South.I’m ashamed to admit that I used to think this way, but now I consider it confused. dogs and cats are domesticated
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63. Animal Ethics: From Today's New York Times
New York Times
Dog Update
Dog Fighting
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
SoyJoy
Mylan
Obesity
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64. Animal Ethics: John Benson on Peter Singer's Argument
to different species. If my dog and I both have headaches then the dog should have the one available aspirin if it has the worse headache. To treat the dog's pain as less important because it is a dog not a man is speciesism (a nasty word for a
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65. Animal Ethics: From Today's New York Times
that used to be reserved for dog food, by treating it with ammonia, in order to save three cents a pound? Hey, why not just feed the little tykes dog food? I’m sure it would save even more money.
By the way, since we are using the former
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66. Animal Ethics: Canine Inequality
not the gap between "rich" dogs and "poor" dogs, but the absolute welfare level of dogs. No dog should have its basic needs unsatisfied. Think of it as creating a floor below which no dog is allowed to fall. Once we create this floor, who cares
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67. Animal Ethics: Introducing Myself
for the first time with my dog Tabatha.Currently, I do not believe that killing an animal is prima facie morally wrong. I simply believe that when animals are killed it ought to be for a good purpose, and in a manner that is respectful to their
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68. Animal Ethics: Jeff McMahan on Dogliness
example, one has ever had a dog, one must surely at some point have suspected that a dog's life contains more pure, unalloyed joy than one's own. But even if it is true that, as a sober and responsible adult, one seldom seems to attain quite the
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69. Animal Ethics: H. J. McCloskey on Punishment of Cruelty to Animals
owner who trains his dog on cats, first removing the cat's claws to protect his dog from injury, or of the householder who half-starves his dog so that he can have an extra beer or two, or of the person who hunts kangaroos, wounding many
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70. Animal Ethics: Referring to Animals
use it in reference to their dogs and cats. Suppose you’ve lived with a dog for 10 years. Wouldn’t it be odd to say such things as, “I have a dog that eats grasshoppers”? Compare: “I have a car that gets 25 miles
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