animal ethics. create a list and brief explanation of 5 animal rights issues
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Animal Ethics
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• Create a list and brief explanation of 5 animal rights issues
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John, a college student, has become involved in an animal rights group on campus. He feels that animals should no longer be used for food, clothing, medical research or entertainment.
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Visiting home for Thanksgiving, he refuses to eat the turkey and gets into a heated argument with his family. His father is furious, arguing that he worked for hours to cook the meal and the bird shouldn’t go to waste now. He demands that John eat some turkey, and says that actions like John’s are neither practical nor meaningful.
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How do you think John should respond? Write your reply on a sheet of scrap paper.Do not put your name on it.I will collect it.
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Animal Rights
Animal Exploitation Animal Liberation
Animal RightsAnimal Welfare• No lab• No farm• No entertainment• No wild (hunting)
• Humane use• Well being• No cruelty
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Animal Rights
Biblical History—Old Testament• Rest on Sabbath• No boiling of kid in mother’s milk• No yoking of animals of different sizes
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Animal Rights
Ancient Greece—Triptolemus• Sacrifice only fruits of the Earth• Injure not the animals
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Animal Rights
India• No living things sacrificed• No slaughter
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Animal Rights
Secular Laws: Ireland 1635• No working of tails• No pulling of sheep’s wool
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Animal Rights
Secular Laws: Martin’s Act, 1822• Richard Martin• Proper treatment of cattle• Modern laws based on Act
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Animal Rights
Carl Linneaus Taxonomy• Animals listed in relation to humans• Humans highest order
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Animal Rights
Charles Darwin• Origin of the Species
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Animal Rights
Before Linnaeus: Human Perspective• Unfeeling• Automatons
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Animal Rights
Animal Welfare Organizations• 1824-SPCA• 1840-RSPCA• 1866-ASPCA
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Animal Rights
Henry Stephens Salt• 1892-Animal Rights
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Animal Rights
Humane Society• 1954
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Animal Rights
Social Protest Movements’ Zeitgeist• 1960s-70s• Civil Rights• Anti-War
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Animal Rights
Cleveland Amory• 1967 – Protect Wild Animal Rights
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Animal Rights
Proliferation of Groups• PETA• FARM• ALF• Earthsave• Farm Sanctuary
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Animal Rights
Philosophers• Descartes – 1600s, humans are superior• Animals can’t think, therefore, can’t feel• Abuses abounded
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Animal Rights
Philosophers• Peter Singer – 1975• Animal Liberation published
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Animal Rights
Is there a difference between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare?
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Animal Rights
Animal Welfare Animal Liberation
Accept certain uses ifsuffering minimal
Larger cages
Relative
Empty cages
Absolute
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Animals In Research Today
• IACUC 3Rs– Reduction– Replacement– Refinement
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Animals In Research Today
• Reduction– Research uses the fewest numbers of animals
• Replacement– Research uses lower order animals whenever
possible• Refinement– Least amount of pain and suffering
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Animals In Research Today
Benefits– Vaccines– New technologies– Affects of biological and nuclear warfare on
humans
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The Pro-Animal Rights View
Sentient being• responsive to or conscious of sense
impressions• Perceive• Conscious
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Moral Agent• Babies?• Animals?• Mentally disabled?
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• Babies have rights.• Animals do not.
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Speciesism
'Speciesism' is the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animals.
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Vivisection
• Literal cutting up or into live animals.• Experimental procedures that result in
injury/death
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• Male/Female
• Male gets greater weight
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• Gay/Straight
• Straight gets greater weight
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Negative right• Michael Vick case• Inflicted pain/suffering/death on dogs
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• How are we different than Vick?• 58 billion animals killed each year
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The Opposite View
• Animals: no moral nature.• Not a Holocaust• Not murder• Hurt/killing animals, lamentable• Not slavery.• Not locking up different• Operate on instincts
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Animals In Research Today
• 100 million vertebrates annually– Vertebrates have backbone– Non-vertebrates (worms, e.g.) used, too.
• Bred, wild or pounds• Most euthanized after experimentation• Mice, rats, fish, rabbits, cats, dog monkeys,
e.g.• Vast majority rats and mice.
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Animals In Research Today
Animals used in…• Medical• Cosmetic• Defense• Genetic • Behavioral
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Animals In Research Today
• World Health Organizations-issued principles• U.S. principles stricter– Approved by Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee (IACUC)– IACUC comprised of veterinarians, industry
professionals
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A Closer Look - Baboons
• Research causes great pain and suffering• Head trauma research at Penn– Baboons and monkeys were subjects– Same type of vertebrates as humans
• Animals subjected to whiplash– Car accidents– Sports injuries
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A Closer Look - Baboons
• Animal kept alive for several weeks• Euthanized• Brain pathology
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A Closer Look - Baboons
• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dw0u_unnecessary-fuss-partie-1_politics
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What Ethical Issues Are Raised?
• Animal Rights and Moral Value– Animals have moral value, just like humans– Most animals after age 1, perceive their world– They should live without human interference
~Tom Regan in The Case for Animal Rights
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What Ethical Issues Are Raised?
• Animal Rights and Moral Value– Animals can feel pain and suffer– They should be respected– Animal interests should be counted
~Peter Singer in Animal Liberation
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What Ethical Issues Are Raised?
• Comparative Utility– It is better to experiment on rats and rabbits than
people.– No replacement for animal research– Experiment, save lives, as opposed not
experimenting.
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What Ethical Issues Are Raised?
• Anthropocentrism– Anthropocentrism is human-centeredness. • Poll: One of the "R's" is replacement of higher-order
animals with those of lower-orders. Is this fair?
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Homework
1. Define the following:1. Anthropocentrism2. Vivisection3. Speciesism.
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Homework
1. Explain some of the uses of animals in current research. Include URL.
2. Define and explain the 3 R's.