Welfare trap

Why must animals be in constant critical conditions when animals cannot even speak up and say inner thoughts? It seems that so many animal shelters have such unsanitary living conditions and any person would not be okay with living in a place like that. To be put to sleep is not a normal thing that one would do to the family pet. Animals have always been just as valuable as a humans, so surely it is inhuman to have the terrible living conditions that they do in animal shelters. There are so…

Amelia Elizabeth Dyer: Baby Farmer Baby farming was the practice of taking care of babies that were not wanted by their parents in exchange for money. This practice was very common in England, Britain. The baby farmers would end up killing them in many ways. Sometimes they would even die because it would be overcrowded and would not be taken care of in an appropriate way.("Baby Farming." Baby Farming. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.) A famous Baby farmer who killed about 400 or more babies was known as…

In Jeffrey A. Miron’s Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition, he discusses the current battle with the regulation and legalization of drugs in the United States and provides an analysis of the problems associated with prohibition. One important aspect of this book, which makes it an excellent, read and economic analysis of prohibition is that he plays both sides of the coin, providing arguments for both prohibitionists and people in favor of the legalization. However, his main point is…

purposes, entertainment, or for its products is against veganism. As such, vegans feel guilt when eating animal products or meat coming from animals that have been killed or tortured. They believe that it is ethically wrong for people to put their welfare or the desire for animal products over the well-being of the animal. Vegans who choose to embrace the culture from an environmental standpoint argue that the use of animals in food has led to problems, such as…

The controversy over animal rights is one of the most argumentative in ethics and morality. Many people believe animals do not have rights, and that the people who support animal rights are liberals who need to find other outlets for their beliefs. Others feel it is our moral obligation to nurture animals as they cannot speak or act for themselves. Immanuel Kant’s view does not claim that it is permissible to cause pointless animal suffering, but he does insist that we have no obligations to the…

Can animals be people? Andrew Revkin addresses this question and the ethical issues it raises in his article for the New York Times entitled “When is a Person Not a Human? When it’s a Dolphin, or Chimp, or…” Specifically, he focuses on the recent push to have dolphins recognized as persons due to their complex mental faculties and the ethical arguments which proponents of this view use to claim moral rights for dolphins and other animals capable of “higher” forms of mental activity and social…

The title of the article "Why Killing Coyotes Doesn't Make Livestock Safe" is an effective hook because it draws in readers from both sides of the debate it discusses. Conservationists will be concerned with wildlife populations, and owners of livestock will be interested in the safety of their own animals. Megan M. Draheim's article follows up on its title with a startling introduction: the US government's Wildlife Services killed more than 70,000 coyotes in the year of 2016. Despite the fact…

Norcross argued about the moral wrong of factory-farmed meat and that people who support it (including consumers) are also morally wrong. He emphasized that the pain caused to factory-farmed animals grossly outweighs any good outcomes. To prove his arguments, he uses his deductive argument called Marginal case in regards to the moral status of non-human animals against the rationality gambit; which attempts to establish the superior ethical status of humans over animals because humans are…

Imagine living in a small, dirty, cold cage, waiting for water that will contain bugs swimming in it, or hoping for some food, even though it looks like it came from the garbage. Imagine not remembering the last time stretching out or running around was even a consideration. This is the harsh reality of dogs at puppy mills, a place that is cruel and heartless. All animals deserve better conditions than these in the world. They may not speak, but they still feel a range of emotions. Puppy mills…

1 What is the title of the song and the name of the composer(s) (if known)? Ka Tangi Te Kuri E by Dr. Pita Sharples 2 What is the song about? The song is about the different sounds or ‘cries’ that a variety of animals make. These animals are a dog, a cat, a bird, and a cow. It involves the sound that the animals make individually, and then listed off in order. As if the animals are singing together. Each animal begins with a description of the action and then the vocal accompaniment of its…