
Why Animal Suffering Matters
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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Reason, Ethics, and Animals
- Part I: Making the Rational Case
- 1. Why Animal Suffering Matters Morally
- 1.1 Differences and morally relevant differences
- 1.2 Examining the differences
- 1.3 A test case: human infants
- 1.4 Reconfiguring the differences and their relevance
- 1.5 Children and animals as special cases
- 1.6 A theological justification
- 1.7 Christ-like suffering
- 1.8 Summary of main points
- 2. How We Minimise Animal Suffering and How We Can Change
- 2.1 Confronting the powers
- 2.2 Moral change and resistance to change
- 2.3 Cultivating and institutionalising critical awareness
- 2.4 Vision and practicalities
- 2.5 Summary of main points
- Part II: Three Practical Critiques
- 3. First Case: Hunting with Dogs
- 3.1 The drawn-out debate
- 3.2 The oddness of the Burns Report
- 3.3 Flawed methodology
- 3.4 Suffering? what suffering?
- 3.5 Addressing the moral issue
- 3.6 Pleasure in suffering
- 3.7 Hunting as anti-social behaviour
- 3.8 The "no control" control
- 3.9 Licensing versus abolition
- 3.10 Conclusion
- 3.11 Summary of main points
- 4. Second Case: Fur Farming
- 4.1 Increasing legislation against fur farming
- 4.2 Fur farming, harm, and suffering
- 4.3 Animals as a special moral case
- 4.4 Law and the protection of the weak
- 4.5 Absence of moral justification
- 4.6 Answers to objections
- 4.7 Conclusion: no alternative to abolition
- 4.8 Summary of main points
- 5. Third Case: Commercial Sealing
- 5.1 First claim: the hunt is humane
- 5.2 Second claim: seal pups are not killed
- 5.3 Third claim: the hunt is tightly regulated
- 5.4 Fourth claim: hunting is for survival
- 5.5 Seals as economic commodities
- 5.6 The problem of partisan governments
- 5.7 Trade embargoes on seal products
- 5.8 Concluding assessment
- 5.9 Summary of main points
- 6. Conclusion: Re-Establishing Animals and Children as a Common Cause, and Six Objections Considered
- 6.1 Singer, infants, and animals
- 6.2 Rejecting institutionalised suffering
- 6.3 Killing, rights, and suffering
- 6.4 Common vulnerabilities
- 6.5 Summary of main points
- Notes
- Index
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