What ethical obligations do we have towards animals, if any, and why? What ought we conclude about factory farming and/or the use of animals in medical researches?
Peter Singer says," Animals in pain behave in much the same way as humans do, and their behaviour is sufficient justification for the belief that they feel pain......To back up our inference from animal behaviour, we can point to the fact that the nervous systems of all vertebrates, and especially of birds and mammals, are fundamentally similar. Those parts of the human nervous system that are concerned with feeling pain are relatively old, in evolutionary terms.......This anatomical parallel makes it likely that the capacity of animals to feel is similar to our own."(Practical Ethics,pp.69-70.) I think that extraction of bile from a bear without anaesthesia is inhumane. The extraction of bile from a bear with the use of say a needle causing no pain is a lie according to the best of our scientific knowledge. The extraction of bile from a bear without the use of anaesthesia is thus morally reprehensible.
Peter Singer says," Animals in pain behave in much the same way as humans do, and their behaviour is sufficient justification for the belief that they feel pain......To back up our inference from animal behaviour, we can point to the fact that the nervous systems of all vertebrates, and especially of birds and mammals, are fundamentally similar. Those parts of the human nervous system that are concerned with feeling pain are relatively old, in evolutionary terms.......This anatomical parallel makes it likely that the capacity of animals to feel is similar to our own."(Practical Ethics,pp.69-70.)
回覆刪除I think that extraction of bile from a bear without anaesthesia is inhumane. The extraction of bile from a bear with the use of say a needle causing no pain is a lie according to the best of our scientific knowledge. The extraction of bile from a bear without the use of anaesthesia is thus morally reprehensible.