Exam 12: Animal Welfare

Tom Regan argues that humans are experiencing subjects of a life; nonhuman animals (normal, fully developed mammals) are nonexperiencing subjects of a life.

The traditional attitude toward animals is that

The claim that animals have no moral standing because they do not have the kind of strong family relationships exhibited by humans has been undermined by

Animal rights activists waged a highly effective campaign against the practice of seal hunting, an activity that constituted the heart of Canadian Inuit culture and identity. The campaign devastated the Inuit economy and created a host of health, social, and cultural problems for them. Thomas Aquinas would almost certainly have sided with the Inuit.

Today almost no one believes, as ________ did, that animals are equivalent to windup clocks, mechanisms without feelings.