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Positive Wild Animal Welfare
With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state...
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Wild Animals
This chapter argues that wild animals can be claim-holders, and, as a consequence, that humans have a moral duty to consider their plight. First, it...
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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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Seeing Animal Suffering
The suffering of non-human animals is great and omnipresent. This is because animals are vulnerable to disease, disfigurement, injury, predation,...
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Climate Change and Animal Ethics
Climate change entails consequences also for non-human animals (from now on just “animals”). Since the 1970s of the twentieth century, moral status...
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Climate Change and Animal Ethics
Climate change entails consequences also for non-human animals (from now on just “animals”). Since the 1970s of the twentieth century, moral status...
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Including animal welfare targets in the SDGs: the case of animal farming
There is an increasing body of literature proposing to include animal welfare in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda. The main argument...
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Nietzsche’s Animal Foes and Friends
Critiques of the mainstream ethics of courage take on epic proportions in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, using provocative language rich in animal...
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Phenomenology Applied to Animal Health and Suffering
What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to be sick? These two questions are much closer to one another than has hitherto been acknowledged....
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Animal Citizenship
For as long as humans have been on the planet, their interactions with animals have been based on a continuous relationship – sometimes characterised...
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Welcoming, Wild Animals, and Obligations to Assist
What we could call ‘relational non-interventionism’ holds that we have no general obligation to alleviate animal suffering, and that we do not...
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Animal Research
This chapter investigates whether animals used in research should be described as a particularly vulnerable group. First, it inquires whether...
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Relational Animal Ethics (and why it isn’t easy)
In Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals , I explore a range of overlooked practical questions in animal ethics and the philosophy of food,...
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On Our Moral Entanglements with Wild Animals
In Just Fodder , Milburn argues for a relational account of our duties to animals. Following Clare Palmer, he argues that, though all animals have...
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Regulation of Animal Research
The use of animals in several areas dates back to recorded and written history. Much of our knowledge in science, medicine, and our understanding of...
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The Political Salience of Animal Protection in the Netherlands (2012–2021) and Belgium (2010–2019): What do Dutch and Belgian Political Parties Pledge on Animal Welfare and Wildlife Conservation?
The Netherlands and Belgium are European Union (EU) states with a shared border and cultural similarities. Article 13 of the EU Treaty of Lisbon...
