The end of animal life : : a start for ethical debate : ethical and societal considerations on killing animals / / edited by Franck L. B. Meijboom, Elsbeth N. Stassen.
Killing animals is common practice, yet it is not morally neutral. The end of animal life is related to many societal and ethical questions and concerns. Questions such as how long should we continue to treat an animal before putting it down? But also the question whether it could be legitimate to k...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Wageningen, The Netherlands : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements ; Table of contents ; 1. The end of animal life: a start for ethical debate ; Part I. ; 2. Killing animals and the value of life ; 3. Killing as a welfare issue ; 4. Death, telos and euthanasia ; 5. Do animals have a moral right to life? Bioethical challenges to Kant's indirect duty debate and; 6. The 'significance of killing' versus the 'death of an animal'; 7. Even a cow would be killed ...: about the difference between killing (some) animals and (some) h; Part II. ; 8. Morality, morbidity and mortality: an ethical analysis of culling nonhuman animals
- 9. Public moral convictions about animals in the Netherlands: culling healthy animals as a moral pr10. Premature culling of production animals; ethical questions related to killing animals in food p; Part III.; 11. Killing animals as a matter of collateral damage; 12. Killing animals as a necessary evil? The case of animal research; 13. Killing of companion animals: to be avoided at all costs?; Part IV.; 14. Beneath the surface: killing of fish as a moral problem; 15. Will wild make a moral difference?; Index