nonhuman animals
- One of the most honest accounts I’ve encountered of humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals comes from political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel, who describes it as a state of war — not a metaphorical war, but a literal one, in which we are the aggressors. If you were an alien who knew nothing about our species, you might expect a civilization that ... See more
from Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
Mary Martin added 1mo ago
- if an animal
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s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.from Article
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- The anthropocentrism of humanity’s
predominant relationship to the environment is so extreme that this gratuitous violence against
other animals (both domesticated and free-living) goes largely unnoticed in everyday society.
Meanwhile, environmental justice, the very field established to champion public awareness
and policy in the service of margin... See morefrom Nonhuman Animal Rights by Corey L Wrenn
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- At its most basic interpretation, then,
the concept of rights for other animals entails a right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and life.from Nonhuman Animal Rights by Corey L Wrenn
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- Whatever action I take, walking, eating and excreting, incurs a cost to other lives, whether by killing and eating them directly, or by eating foods that they could otherwise have lived on. The most extreme impact my life has on other species is extinction, not just of their physical presence, but also of their memories, both those acquired within ... See more
from On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays by David Waltner-Toews
Mary Martin added 7mo ago
- If we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?
from On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays by David Waltner-Toews
Mary Martin added 7mo ago
- Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’
from ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays by Erica Berry
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- Not only are we failing to consider other species, we are flailing in our connection with one another.
from ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays by Erica Berry
Mary Martin added 8mo ago
- the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?... The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes... "
Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)from Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals
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