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Cloning, Animal (See Animal Cloning)
Animal cloning spontaneously happens in nature via various means. Such cloning commonly refers to the artificial production of animals that are...
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Animal Cloning (See Animal Ethics; Animal Research; Cloning)
Cloning in the animal world is achieved naturally in several ways. Asexual reproduction is when an organism creates a copy of itself without any...
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New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics
New omnivorism is a term coined by Andy Lamey to refer to arguments that – paradoxically – our duties towards animals require us to eat some animal...
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Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare
This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the...
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Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide
A hybrid theory is any moral theory according to which different classes of individuals ought to be treated according to different principles. We...
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To the market and back? A study of the interplay between public policy and market-driven initiatives to improve farm animal welfare in the Danish pork sector
This article discusses the interplay of public policy and market-driven initiatives to improve farm animal welfare (FAW). Over the last couple of...
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Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy
Can empathy be a tool for obtaining scientific knowledge or is it incompatible with the detached objectivity that is often seen as the ideal in...
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Enforcing the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012
This chapter considers how the, now repealed, Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012 were enforced and what...
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Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma
Interspecies intimacy defines an inescapable reality of lab animal research. This essay is an effort to disentangle this reality’s consequences—both in ...
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“Frequently Asked Questions” About Genetic Engineering in Farm Animals: A Frame Analysis
Calls for public engagement on emerging agricultural technologies, including genetic engineering of farm animals, have resulted in the development of...
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Should vegans have children? Examining the links between animal ethics and antinatalism
Ethical vegans and vegetarians believe that it is seriously immoral to bring into existence animals whose lives would be miserable. In this paper, I...
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African Theories of Human Dignity: Euthanasia, Animal Ethics and Disability
This chapter applies African theories of human dignity to select themes in applied ethics. Specifically, it applies the four theories of human...
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Caring animals and the ways we wrong them
Many nonhuman animals have the emotional capacities to form caring relationships that matter to them, and for their immediate welfare. Drawing from...
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The Value of Wild Nature: Comments on Kyle Johannsen’s Wild Animal Ethics
In his book Wild Animal Ethics , Kyle Johannsen argues that our duties of beneficence to help suffering wild animals require significant interventions...
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The Meat of the Matter, or the Neglect of Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Ecotopian Science Fiction
In response to the current climate crisis, organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and United Nations Food and...
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Ethics and Human–Animal Relations: Review Essay
This review essay considers five recent books that address the ethical dimensions of human–animal relations. The books are David Favre, Respecting...
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Killing as Orthodoxy, Exegesis as Apologetics: The Animal Sacrifice in the Manubhāṣya of Medhātithi
Deeply rooted in the Vedic tradition, animal sacrifice is a controversial issue associated with a larger discourse of violence and non-violence in...