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Respecting animals : a balanced approach to our relationship with pets, food, and wildlife / David S. Favre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Favre, David S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2018.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 An Ethical Duty toward Animals 27
- Chapter 2 The Fork in the Road: The Use of Beings 35
- Chapter 3 Respectful Use 43
- Chapter 4 The Property Status 57
- The Jet Discussion 60
- Interlude: Fence Row Farm 63
- Chapter 5 Introduction to Communities 67
- Two New Concepts 71
- The Frog Pond 73
- Chapter 6 Human Communities 77
- Chapter 7 Human Communities with Animals 85
- The Community of Companions (of Family) 86
- Community with Working Animals 88
- Community with Local Wildlife 89
- Community with Global Wildlife 93
- Community with Industrial Agricultural Animals versus Historical Agricultural Animals 95
- The Community of Our Knowledge Seekers of Self and Society 97
- Negative Communities 98
- The Community of Genetic Creation 99
- Chapter 8 We All Have Interests 103
- If Something Is Alive, It Has interests 103
- The Source of Biological Self-Interest 104
- Human Interest 106
- Community Interest 108
- Environmental Interests 109
- Conflicts of Interests between Humans 109
- Conflicts of Interests between Humans and Animals 110
- Chapter 9 Pause and Refocus 115
- The Cat and the Cactus 116
- Chapter 10 The Process of Making Judgments 119
- How We Think 120
- The Logical versus the Holist 121
- Our Brains in Operation 123
- Holistic Judgments within the Law 130
- Judgments and Information 133
- Limits of Logic 134
- Habit versus Judgment 135
- Chapter 11 Values 139
- The Environment 143
- Chapter 12 Ethical Judgments about Animals 149
- Making Private Judgments 149
- Making Collective Judgments 152
- Impact of Money 156
- Weighing the Interests 159
- The Ethics of Purchasing 161
- Chapter 13 We Are the Gods of Old 165
- How Has This Happened? 166
- Humans as the Information Species 168
- Professor Xybery Lecture 170
- The Duties of the Gods 178
- Being a Civitist 179
- The Deer Park Problem 181
- Individual Life 183
- The DNA within Life 183
- Ethical Context for Genetic Creation of New Animals 185
- Chapter 14 Dealing with Death 189
- A Few Difficult Deaths 190
- End- of-Life Decisions 194
- Zoo Question 195
- Local Wildlife Question 196
- The Act versus the Motivation for the Act 196
- Death by Plant Production 198
- The Death of Farm Animals in a Pasture-Based System 200
- A Conversation with Karen 204
- Death of Animals in Science and Testing Products 209
- A Sad Sheep Story 211
- Death by Hunter 211
- The Airplane Food Dilemma 213
- Chapter 15 Do Ethics Operate Within Or Upon Global Corporations And Governments? 215
- The Nature of Large Corporations 217
- Corporate Motivation 220
- Rules of Capitalism 221
- Corporate Leadership 223
- Code of Responsibility for Animal-Owning Corporations 230
- Chapter 16 A Foray into the Law 233
- Legal Personality 234
- Living Property: Animalhood 238
- Wills and Trust 240
- Human Divorce 241
- Equitable Self-Ownership 242
- What about Wild Animals? 243
- Welfare versus Rights 246.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Favre, David S., author. Respecting animals
- ISBN:
- 9781633884250
- 1633884252
- OCLC:
- 1002421874
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