Exam 12: Animal Welfare

In order to be logically consistent, a person who believes that animals have rights would also have to hold the view that animals have the same moral rights that humans do.

Our moral common sense suggests that accidentally running over a man with our car is morally worse than doing the same to a rabbit. Tom Regan would

Suppose your friend is an animal rights advocate for the same reasons that Peter Singer is (utilitarian calculations). She thinks our system of meat production should be abolished, but by her own lights, her utilitarianism could sanction

According to Peter Singer, those who do not give equal moral consideration to both human and nonhuman animals are guilty of ________.

The philosopher ________ helped engender the animal rights movement by arguing that something was very wrong with the traditional attitude toward animals and their treatment.

Suppose you believe it would be just as wrong to hurt, eat, cage, or hunt an animal as it would be to do the same to a human. What theory could you use to justify your belief?

Both Peter Singer and Jeremy Bentham hold that utilitarian calculations must take into account the pleasure and pain of all sentient creatures.

When an animal is entitled to a kind of moral respect that cannot be overridden (or cannot be overridden easily), it is said to have ________.

Consider the practice of scientific experimentation on animals, in which, for example, the benefits gained from the research greatly outweigh the suffering involved. In this case, a Singer utilitarian may want to condone the research, and a Regan animal rights advocate would want to abolish the research.

For both Jeremy Bentham and Peter Singer, what makes a being worthy of moral concern, what requires us to include it in the moral community, is its ability to ________.

In 2015 and 2016 in the United States alone, more than 18 billion animals, including cows, pigs, sheep, and lambs, were slaughtered for food.

Mary Anne Warren says that human lives have greater intrinsic value than animal lives because human lives are worth more to their possessors.

In Britain, thousands have protested for and against scientific animal testing, with each side trying to make its case in the streets and in the media. What plausible utilitarian argument could scientists and others make in favor of the testing?

To say that an animal has moral status is to say that

It was the philosopher Thomas Aquinas who said, "It is no wrong for man to make use of [animals], either by killing them or in any other way whatever."

According to Peter Singer, if a man and a pig were both experiencing intense pain, we must assume that

Virtually everyone thinks that being cruel to animals-unnecessarily causing them pain or misery-is

The claim that merely having the DNA of the human species gives beings moral considerability has been undermined by

Those who hold the traditional attitude toward animals believe that cruelty to animals is bad, but only because the Bible explicitly speaks against it.

If it's wrong to cage a human being, then it's wrong to cage a nonhuman animal. Zoos that exist solely for the sake of entertaining visitors are wrong, as they keep nonhuman animals in cages against their will. This view is most likely to be held by