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Are Some Animals Also Moral Agents? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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

open access: yesCahiers d’histoire, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Attitudes of South Brazilian sheep farmers to animal welfare and sentience

open access: yesCiência Rural, 2017
: 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 Matter of Non-Avian Reptile Sentience, and Why It “Matters” to Them: A Conceptual, Ethical and Scientific Review

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
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

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
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?

open access: yesBMC Biology, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Dilemmatic human-animal boundaries in Britain and Romania: Post-materialist and materialist dehumanization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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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Welfare-aligned Sentience: Enhanced Capacities to Experience, Interact, Anticipate, Choose and Survive

open access: yesAnimals, 2019
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?

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
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]

open access: yes, 2018
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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