Animal Welfare & Human ValuesWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 24 հնս, 1993 թ. - 334 էջ As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made aware of the atrocities committed in the Society’s jurisdiction. They have been, in turn, puzzled, exasperated and horrified at humanity’s cruelty to our fellow sentient beings. The issues discussed in this book are the most contentious in animal welfare disputes — animal experimentation, fur-farming and trapping, the use of animals for human entertainment and the conditions under which animals are raised for human consumption. They are complex issues and should be thought about fairly and seriously. The authors, standing squarely on the side of the animals, suggest “community” and “belonging” as concepts through which to understand our relationships to other species. They ground their ideas in Wordsworth’s “primal sympathy” and Jung’s “unconscious identity” with the animal realm. The philosophy developed in this book embraces common sense and compromise as the surest paths to the goal of animal welfare. It requires respect and consideration for other species while acknowledging our primary obligations to our fellow humans. |
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... less of the symbolism of the Virgin Mary ) . The Egyptians also offered undue reverence to the leopard and the hippopotamus , and , perhaps more surprisingly , to mongooses , scorpions , frogs and dung beetles . In and around Egypt ...
... Less and less has the ' wisdom of the East ' anything to do with modern Asia . " 3 Nonetheless , while Western civilization may have little to learn from Oriental practice about appropriate behaviour toward non - human animals there is ...
... less prominent in Buddhism . All in all this encouraged each individual to develop a respect for all living things — or give alms to the monk to have him do it for you — but did little to create a societal order in which there was any ...
... less common we suspect — who do their utmost to make their research as mechanistic as possible ( calling it ' science ' not mechanics ) , who treat humans as objects whose behaviour is to be explained rather than understood , announce ...
... less than persuasive as a philosophy , it remained , in slightly more sophisticated form , the basis of liberal hedonist ideology until very recently , and probably still dominates cynical intellectual circles . Such scientism , while ...
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Animal Experimentation The Alternatives | 73 |
Animal Experimentation Legislation and Assessment | 85 |
Hunting Fishing and Fowling | 103 |
Animals in Entertainment Zoos Aquaria and Circuses | 185 |
Of Farms and Factories | 211 |
Companion Animals | 229 |
The Community of Sentient Beings | 243 |
The Philosophy of Animal Rights | 265 |
The Philosophy of Animal Protection | 283 |
Epilogue Ode to Sensibility | 307 |
Select Bibliography | 317 |
Frivolous Fur Veneration and Environmentalism | 123 |
Frivolous Fur Trappers Clubbers and Farmers | 139 |
Animals in Entertainment Racing Riding and Fighting | 161 |
Index | 321 |