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Animal Rights and Ethics
  • G. Robert Weedon, DVM, MPH
  • Originally Developed By
  • Rachel Hurst Tomi Hill
  • Former HON 120 Students

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Introduction
  • Rights
  • Meeting a standard (What is your standard?) of
    genuine conduct that is just, proper and
    honorable.
  • A right is a particular way of protecting
    interests
  • Ethics
  • Discipline dealing with good and evil and with
    moral duty moral principles or practice.
  • A set of principles of right conduct

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Speciesism
  • The prejudice many humans have in favor of their
    own species
  • The boundary of my own group is the boundary of
    my concern
  • This is the philosophy that non-human animals
    live by, yet they are not rational beings
  • Therefore is it wrong when humans live by this
    philosophy?

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The Burning House Scenario?
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The Burning House Scenario?
  • Your dog or your child?
  • Your dog or someone elses child?
  • Your dog or an unknown human?
  • Your dog or a terminally-ill human?
  • Your dog or Adolph Hitler?

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Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare
  • Utilitarianism states that an action is right if
    the harm brought about by an action is
    outweighed by the good brought about by the
    action
  • Animal welfare theories accept that animals have
    interests but allow these interests to be traded
    away as long as there are some human benefits
    that are thought to justify that sacrifice.

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Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare
  • Rights-based philosophy deals with individual
    rights. Individuals have inherent value.
  • Animal rights means that animals, like humans,
    have interests that cannot be sacrificed or
    traded away just because it might benefit others.
    However, the rights position does not hold that
    rights are absolute an animals rights, just
    like those of humans, must be limited, and rights
    can certainly conflict.
  • The principle of equal consideration

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Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare
  • Animal rights means that animals are not ours to
    use for food, clothing, entertainment, or
    experimentation.
  • Animal welfare allows these uses as long as
    "humane" guidelines are followed.

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The Heart of the Matter
  • Dr. Jeff Goodwin
  • Texas AM University

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Philosophy For Animal Rights
  • Animals, especially those used by humans, have
    inherent value in and of themselves and have an
    equal and general right to be treated with
    respect
  • Animals should not have equal rights but equal
    consideration of interests and respect
  • As a fellow creature of the earth, we are all
    born with the same fundamental, unspoken rights
  • Only humans try to define such things with words
    and delegate these ideas to the lives of other
    creatures

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The Animal Rights Movement
  • Animal rights means that animals deserve certain
    kinds of considerationconsideration of what is
    in their own best interests regardless of whether
    they are cute, useful to humans, or an endangered
    species and regardless of whether any human cares
    about them at all (just as a mentally-challenged
    human has rights even if he or she is not cute or
    useful or even if everyone dislikes him or her).
    It means recognizing that animals are not ours to
    usefor food, clothing, entertainment, or
    experimentation.

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The Animal Rights Movement
  • The fundamental principle of the AR movement is
    that nonhuman animals deserve to live according
    to their own natures, free from harm, abuse, and
    exploitation. This goes further than just saying
    that we should treat animals well while we
    exploit them, or before we kill and eat them. It
    says animals have the RIGHT to be free from human
    cruelty and exploitation, just as humans possess
    this right. The withholding of this right from
    the nonhuman animals based on their species
    membership is referred to as "speciesism".

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The Animal Rights Movement
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The Animal Rights Movement
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The Animal Rights Movement
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Philosophy Against Animal Rights
  • If having rights means assuming responsibility
    then animals should not have rights because they
    cannot be held morally responsible for what they
    do
  • They cannot perceive good and evil, right and
    wrong
  • With rights comes duty and animals have no
    sense of duty or legal obligations
  • Animals were created for man to use

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The Anti-Animal Rights Movement
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The Anti-Animal Rights Movement
  • Mankind in general is a reasoning animal. This
    alone sets us head and shoulders above all other
    animals. We are charged with the care and
    maintenance of all other animals. We try our best
    to see that we do not intentionally harm or abuse
    animals. But we do not admit them to congress,
    nor let them sign up for library cards.

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Animal Research
  • Scientists have every reason to treat animals
    humanely because good science depends on healthy
    animals, an ethos buttressed by laws ensuring
    humane care.
  • Adrian Morrison

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Animal Research
  • Do we really need animal research and
    experimentation?
  • Yes Needed for human health care advancement
  • No Quality of life and conditions for animals
    are not always ethical or humane.

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What have we learned?
  • Why are animals important to us?
  • How do animals impact our lives?
  • How do we impact their lives?

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What have we learned?
  • Our Relationship with Animals
  • Our Responsibilities for Animals
  • How We Use Exploit Animals

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Our Relationship with Animals
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Our Relationship with Animals
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Our Relationship with Animals
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Our Relationship with Animals
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Our Responsibility for Animals
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Our Responsibility for Animals
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Our Responsibility for Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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How We Use Exploit Animals
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What have we learned?
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in
his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of
a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
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In short, I hope you never lose sight of the
importance of animals in your life.
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Words of Wisdom
  • Be brave. Even when youre not, pretend to be.
    No one can tell the difference.
  • If you decide to run with the ball, just count
    on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of
    you a lot. But never forget how much fun it is
    just to run with the ball.
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