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This book is drawn from articles originally published in the Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE). Essays in the first section discuss aspects of veterinary oaths, how advances in animal cognition science factor into current ethical debates, and the rise of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine and its relationship to traditional veterinary medicine. The second section continues with an essay that addresses why veterinarians have an obligation to educate animal caregivers to look past 'cuteness' in order to treat all animals with dignity. The collection closes with three short sections focusing on animals in farming, trade, and research ”areas where veterinarians encounter conflicts between their job and their duty to advocate and care for animals.

Animal rights. --- Animal welfare --- Animal liberation --- Animals' rights --- Rights of animals --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects

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This timely and provocative book examines the theories behind the most commonly held contemporary assumptions about animal rights. Focusing on the writings of prominent pro-liberation activists such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan and Mary Midgley, Michael P. T. Leahy argues that the animal rights movement is based upon a series of fundamental misconceptions about the basic nature of animals--beliefs which define them rationally, emotionally, and morally in too human terms. Leahy gives particular emphasis to the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his highly influential philosophy of language, and

Animal rights. --- Animal welfare --- Animal liberation --- Animals' rights --- Rights of animals --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Animal rights --- Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

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Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic property--for instance, life, sentience, humanity, or moral agency. Others believe that relational properties, such as belonging to a human community, are more important. In Part I of the book, Warren argues that no single property can serve as the sole criterion for moral status; instead, life, sentience, moral agency, and social and biotic relationships are all relevant, each in a different way. She presents seven basic principles, each focusing on a property that can, in combination with others, legitimately affect an agent's moral obligations towards entities of a given type. In Part II, these principles are applied in an examination of three controversial ethical issues: voluntary euthanasia, abortion, and the moral status of animals.

Abortion --- Animal rights. --- Duty. --- Euthanasia --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Animal rights --- Duty --- Deontology --- Obligation --- Responsibility --- Supererogation --- Animal liberation --- Animals' rights --- Rights of animals --- Animal welfare --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and religious aspects

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Varner defends a 'biocentric individualist' stance that prioritises the lives of animals with conscious desires and to certain human interests. The text shows that such a view is able to support the goals on the environmentalist agenda.

Environmental ethics. --- Animal rights. --- Environmentalists --- Philosophy of nature. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Scientists --- Animal liberation --- Animals' rights --- Rights of animals --- Animal welfare --- Environmental quality --- Human ecology --- Ethics --- Attitudes. --- Philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects

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A philosophical and theological exploration of animal consciousness and animal rights. The author lays down a foundation for a contemporary ethic in which people exercise intelligent stewardship and ensure the compassionate treatment of animals.

Animal rights --- Animal welfare --- Consciousness in animals. --- Animal liberation --- Animals' rights --- Rights of animals --- Animal consciousness --- Animal psychology --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Consciousness in animals --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects