Animal Welfare & Human ValuesWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1993 M06 24 - 334 páginas 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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... knowledge and create wealth , especially in the last millennium B.C. Moreover , the horse above all helped spread and acquire learn- ing — thus , for example , the Greek philosophical historian Herodotus was able to visit Mesopotamia ...
... knowledge that God enters into them through fractioning Himself as living creatures . " And in his " Sermon on the Turning of the Wheel of the Law " delivered at the deer park at Sarnath in India somewhere between the fifth and sixth ...
... knowledge and learning have not always served to diminish such attitudes . To the contrary , they have sometimes fuelled them . As the new learning , the impetus to the Renaissance and the age of science , was emerging in the thirteenth ...
... knowledge to alleviate human suffering which , they point out , in turn helps to alleviate animal suffering as well . Advocates on the other side have countered with the argument that the claims are exaggerated , that no distinction is ...
... knowledge was very late in coming to Western civilization . From the Roman adoption of Christianity as the official state religion until after the Reformation , the Roman Catholic Church refused to permit the dissection of human ...
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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 |