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Are Some Animals Also Moral Agents? [PDF]
Animal rights philosophers have traditionally accepted the claim that human beings are unique, but rejected the claim that our uniqueness justifies denying animals moral rights.
Johannsen, Kyle
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L’animal-machine. Élevage industriel et biotechnologies
Introduced by Descartes, the metaphor of the animal-machine has largely survived him and his philosophy. This is because it is a technical model, which does not say what animals are (everyone knows that they are not machines) but how they should be ...
Catherine Larrère
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Attitudes of South Brazilian sheep farmers to animal welfare and sentience
: We investigated self-reported attitudes of 148 South Brazilian sheep farmers to animal welfare and sentience. Many farmers (73.0%) knew animal welfare superficially.
Priscilla Regina Tamioso +2 more
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The concept of sentience, how it is characterised and which non-human animals possess it have long been of contention in academic and intellectual debates. Many have argued that there is no way to empirically know that animals have conscious experiences.
Mark James Learmonth
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Global and Brazilian Scenario of Guidelines and Legislation on Welfare in Pig Farming
The evolution of scientific knowledge regarding animal sentience, together with the growing concerns of consumers regarding current production models, has brought with it the responsibility of reviewing many practices carried out in industrial swine ...
Isabella Cristina de Castro Lippi +3 more
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Animal welfare research is fascinating, ethical, and useful—but how can it be more rigorous?
The scientific study of animal welfare supports evidence-based good animal care, its research contributing to guidelines and policies, helping to solve practical problems caused by animal stress, and raising fascinating questions about animal sentience ...
Georgia J. Mason
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Dilemmatic human-animal boundaries in Britain and Romania: Post-materialist and materialist dehumanization [PDF]
This is the post-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2007 The British Psychological SocietyTheories of dehumanization generally assume a single clear-cut, value-free and non ...
Afrodita Marcu +52 more
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The focus of this opinion is on the key features of sentience in animals which can experience different states of welfare, encapsulated by the new term ‘welfare-aligned sentience’. This term is intended to exclude potential forms of sentience that do not
David J. Mellor
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Animal Welfare Science: Why and for Whom?
There are, in the literature, distinct ways to approach animal welfare. The objective of this work was to study the value attributed to farm animals in the scientific papers published in animal welfare and animal production journals at three different ...
Alessandra Akemi Hashimoto Fragoso +5 more
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Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of chefs to a position of cultural prominence. This rise has coincided with increased consciousness of ethical issues pertaining to food, particularly as they concern animals.
Lamey, Andy, Sharpless, Ike
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