Tag: animal rights
Costco Chickens and Human Exceptionalism
The impact of too-onerous animal-welfare laws on the diets of people of limited means becomes clear.
Pushing Elephant “Personhood”
Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use.
Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?
Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights.
Why “Humanize”? A New Effort to Defend the Unique Dignity of Human Beings
One of the tragic trends in thinking about evolution has been to blur the distinction between humans and animals. History warns us not to regard this lightly.
Wesley J. Smith on Rights Gone Wild
Listen in as Smith discusses how science has been conflated with ethics and talks about animal and plant rights.