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According to Schopenhauer: "Since compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character, it may be confidently asserted that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a good man", [1] and finally, that "Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality", echoing Buddhist views on animal ethics; [5] however, Schopenhauer ...
In the larger context of animal rights, though, the association of Jesus as a 'good shepherd' character, one taking things so far that "the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep", establishes a moral theme of those that are stronger and more powerful being willing to sacrifice for the weaker and less powerful, all out of love. This can ...
Primatt held that pain is evil and humans have no right to inflict it on animals or each other. [1] He commented that "pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or on beast". [8] It was one of the first books to argue for the compassionate treatment of animals and influenced the animal welfare movement. [9] [10] [11] [12]
The hope seems to be that we can eliminate what we don’t like about animal agriculture — hurting animals — and keep what we do — being able to eat them, without feeling badly about it.
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk.PETA launched a "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign in the early 2000s.In 2006, Ingrid Newkirk, the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said: "Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses" as part of the organization's "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign. [17]
The ability of animals to suffer, even it may vary in severity, is the basis for Singer's application of equal consideration. The problem of animal suffering, and animal consciousness in general, arose primarily because it was argued that animals have no language. Singer writes that, if language were needed to communicate pain, it would often ...
Wild animals are covered under the Wild Life Act. [118] [119] The bill had stalled its motion through the legislature until an injured toucan was found which had lost the top half of its beak. News and images of the injured bird, now named Grecia, raised enough contributions to create a 3D printed prosthesis for her, and helped spur the bill's ...
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