Welfare trap

1. Do you agree with the Norwegian and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption? No. I do not believe that any country in the world should be able to hunt whales, especially if a large majority of the world disagrees with the practice. In the 1960 's the International Whaling Committee (IWC) tried to manage the commercial hunting of whales but realized that they needed a complete ban to prevent extinction. Whales are very slow to…

Norcross compares the killing farm animals to the abuse and killing of puppies. In his argument he shares a story about a man named Fred, who was in a car accident and requires the puppies for gustatory pleasure. Fred’s gadivia gland was injured in the accident. This gland produces a hormone called cocamone that allows Fred to taste and enjoy chocolate. He discovered that only puppies that have experienced stress and suffering are able to produce this hormone. Fred thinks that puppies are just…

Why Trophy hunting can be good for animal conservation efforts This is an interesting argument and most people, (me included) find it hard to accept. I don’t like trophy hunting I cannot see why anyone would enjoy paying a large sum of money to kill an animal that has done nothing to deserve death. Frankly, the argument is counterintuitive. How can killing animals save animals from being killed? Keep an open mind. Evidence suggests that in specific situations trophy hunting can really help…

All Animals are Not Equal Organizations like PETA work towards the betterment of the treatment of animals. In today's society animals are used in many horrific ways such as, food production and and the testing of medicine and other human products. Is this ok? The australian philosopher Peter Singer says it is not. He believes that we should end all use of animals in food production and any forms of testing. He argues that all animals are equal and should be treated as so. I disagree with…

Pets The authors, Anna Charlton and Gary Francione, challenged the welfare of pets by questioning their existence due to their rights in the article The Case against Pets. Although people love their pets, the pets are not getting their rights and welfare (Paras. 1-3). Rights are only the protection of interest in which animals have no control over due to the fact that there is an underlying problem that dogs, like most animals, are treated as someone’s property (Paras. 4-6). The only time…

The Lives of Animals is a metafiction novel based on a lecture given by a fictional character named Elizabeth Costello. Elizabeth is an animal rights activists who presents at Appleton College to inform other people on her values of how animals are treated so unethically. Moreover, Costello emphaisizes her belief that humans do not need to eat meat to survive. Moreover, Costello strongly disagrees with the use of farms (which she refers to as factorieies) and slaughterhouses where animals are…

deer, and other animals you could eat. If you can find a coconut, take a sharp rock or knife and saw the husk, once you're done with that then crack the nut open. Inside is coconut milk that you can drink if ever thirsty. You can make a net, snare trap or bow and arrow to catch some fish. It might be very hard but if you keep trying you will get the hang of…

Banning Pit Bulls Doesn’t Solve the Problem Pit bulls are vicious animals and should not be pets, but let’s look at what they were really bred for. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, (ASPCA) Pitbull’s were bred for bull-baiting and bear-baiting. They were bred to hold these large animals by the face in the United Kingdom. When this had become illegal in the late 1800s, people decided a new fate for these companions, which was fighting. A Pit bull was…

The ethical treatment of animals should be taken more seriously because of the cruelty suffered by animals at amusement events, factories and in the research field. Animals ethics is a term to describe the way the human reacts with the animal and how the animal should properly be treated. Many philosophers believe that since animals doesn’t have the moral judgement that humans have, then anyone can do whatever they want to do them because they don’t know right from wrong. An animal is very…

Deciding how to interact and improve the world through ethics and moral reasoning is an ongoing contentious debate that has lasted for thousands of years. Two of the largest moral theories to develop in the twentieth century, that try to deal with the world around us, is environmentalism and animal liberation. Environmentalism is best summarized as the moral principle that biotic communities and the relationships within those communities are of the utmost importance to preserve. Animal…