#animalethics

Hello steemit friends,this is another of my entry for the daily #celestialchallenge. special thanks to @sirknight for initiating such a wonderful challenge that enables us to discover nature abd other

Lawyer Steven Wise was first introduced to the ideas of animal rights and animal personhood by reading philosophy books. He soon realized, however, that philosophers and lawyers mean different things when

Why do we respect other people? Because we like them or have relationships with them? Because they are capable of reciprocating? Because they belong to the same social group, or ethnic group? Or is it

Things and Persons You’ve probably heard the expression, “Animals are people, too.” It’s a cute expression meant to show respect for animals, but actually being a person has a great deal of significance

Does nature know best? Animals in the wild suffer all the time from accidents, injuries, diseases, hunger, and thirst in situations in which we could help them. Yet many people believe that we shouldn’t

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus have announced that by 2018 they will no longer feature elephants in their shows. This comes after many lawsuits, fines, and cities that have banned circuses

A modern-day chimera is “a hybrid organism with organs or tissues from multiple species… Scientists have mixed-and-matched human and animal cells for years, hoping to one day grow replacement human organs

From the graphic below, you can see that there are many more domesticated animals than humans on the planet. About 70 billion of them are killed for food every year around the world. But that's nothing

Chickens like to spend time in the sunshine, spread their wings, dust bathe, spend time with their families and find safe places to hide their eggs.

The appeal to nature, also known as the naturalistic fallacy, is a logical fallacy in which what is natural is assumed to be good. For instance, natural environments are often assumed to be better than

“I am a cow. “I am a cow in a lovely pasture, a green expanse ringed by distant barns. “In front of me is another cow— Karutz explains that this is a mirror image of my avatar, put there because, given

As a young child, I loved cats and dogs but ate pigs and cows. I didn't know that's what I was doing. I stopped wanting to eat animal flesh when I was a kid and I first found out that meat was the bodies

Philosopher David Pearce wants to see a world where all sentient beings are well cared for. With the rapidly advancing technology in computing and nanotechnology, he sees the possibility for a world where

Pets v. farm animals

"It warn't the grounding —that didn't keep [the steamboat's arrival] back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a [slave]."