Tag: animal welfare
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.
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.
Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person”
This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects.
Give Up Pets to Save the Planet!
Cats are, we are told sternly, an unsustainable “environmental vice that we must confront”!