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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... objects of worship and pets . It is no exaggeration to recognize our relationship with other animals as a principal source of population expansion , accumulation of wealth and the benefits of civilization itself . Strange as it may seem ...
... objects of worship elsewhere . But the benefit to the animals was not always what one might imagine though distinctly preferable to being the disparaged objects of infamous sport ! We must look to Egypt for the most extensive ...
... objects which had a task to perform for their masters . Nineteenth- century Romanticism eulogized the feudal and medieval age of chivalry , but it did so without any awareness of the cruelty perpetrated on the animal realm . The stories ...
... objects of his study . Yet he also amused himself by killing many of them for sport . He also slaughtered squirrels , raccoons , opossums and reptiles as decorations for his home ( he was in fact at one time employed as a taxidermist ) ...
... objects whose behaviour is to be explained rather than understood , announce that all values are relative 12 Quoted in Singer , Animal Liberation , pp . 201-202 . and without objective foundation — and then with the most 28 Animal ...
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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 |