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metaphorical forest and trees
Colin SalterCentre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS)
Friday, 1 April 2011Thinking About Animals10th Annual Nth America ICAS Conference
animal use and animal suffering
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Overview
n Use and/both suffering
n The lives of individual (nonhuman) animals matter to themselves
n Can ‘rights’ ever be an adequate framework?
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welfare treatment=
abolition use=
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and/both
n Move beyond either/or
n Rationalist limitations
n Ones life matters to them
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Bad choices
n (rescued, companion) nonhuman animals
n farmed nonhuman animals
n exploitation and/both suffering
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Gary Francione (1996) Rain without Thunder: the ideology of the animal rights movement, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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ReferencesGary Francione (1996) Ecofeminism and Animal Rights: A Review of Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals, Women’s Rights Law Reporter, Vol. 18, pp. 95-106. Reprinted in Gary Francione (2008) Animals as Persons: essays on the abolition of animal exploitation, New York: Column University Press, pp. 186-209.
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ReferencesNathaniel P Rogers (1845) ‘The Rights of Animals’, Herald of Freedom, October 31. Reproduced in A collection of the miscellaneous writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, 2nd Edition (1849).
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Image sourcesDebora Durant (2011) ‘Annabelle (chicken), at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary’, Momentile, February 19.http://mtile.us/debiguity/02-19-2011/
Debora Durant (2011) ‘Marius (goat), at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary’, Momentile, January 22.http://mtile.us/debiguity/01-22-2011/
Debora Durant (2010) ‘Jake (deaf cat)’, Momentile, August 16.http://mtile.us/debiguity/08-16-2010/
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