A Rational Approach to Animal Rights

Wrenn, Corey Lee

doi:10.1057/9781137434654

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“…The situation is similar in the work of other writers who oppose animal use, such as Dunayer (2004), Torres (2007), and Wrenn (2015). Because the typical consequences (and arguably, the prerequisites) of animal use are so obviously morally objectionable, opponents of animal use have not focused on showing that animal use is inherently objectionable.…”

Section: Regan's Argument Against Animal Usementioning

confidence: 79%

A Kantian Argument Against Using Animals

Müller

2022

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

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This chapter illustrates how Kantianism for Animals can be used creatively by presenting a novel argument against animal use. Traditional ‘abolitionist’ arguments in animal ethics have focused on showing that animal use has objectionable consequences (such as disutility or rights violations) or objectionable preconditions (such as the property status of animals under the law). Kantianism for Animals enables another type of moral criticism focused on the ends we ought to endorse. Our beneficence to animals should only be limited by other moral duties to self and others, not by self-interest. The chapter discusses the implications of this argument and how it differs from received arguments.

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Section: Regan's Argument Against Animal Usementioning

confidence: 79%

A Kantian Argument Against Using Animals

Müller

2022

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

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“…4 Nonetheless, veganism has become big business (Sexton et al, 2022) and the growing market for plant-based products has capitalised on this surge. The corporatisation of veganism, as well as the professionalisation of activism (Wrenn, 2019), has seen some long-standing activists argue that there is a battle in progress for the 'heart' of veganism. 5 Vegan commercialisation coincides with a growing urgency for the environment, all of which has coalesced in a complicated situation for veganism(s).…”

Section: Claiming Veganism's Contemporary Surgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Veganism has recently been brought into conversations on agriculture (Pendergrast, 2016), ecology (Best, 2014), economy (Sexton et al, 2022), and climate discourse (Sanford & Lorimer, 2022) as readily as it is into cultural and social geographies (McGregor et al, 2023). Previously, veganism had been taken up in anarchist geographies and social movement studies, with a rich history in Sociology (Cherry, 2021; Taylor & Sutton, 2018; Wrenn, 2015). But, as veganism mainstreams, ‘vegan geographies’ are becoming a site for innovation and agenda‐setting that does not engage veganism's rich and complex histories (see Oliver, 2021a), and the wealth of scholarship that already exists.…”

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Claiming veganism and vegan geographies

Oliver,

Turnbull,

Richardson

2023

Geographical Journal

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A decade ago, veganism was a fringe radical movement. It was also largely absent from the geographical discipline, despite a rich history of vegan scholarship being present in disciplines such as Sociology and Psychology. However, veganism has recently seen a surge in popularity, with more people than ever before becoming vegan for a mixture of animal welfare, environmental, and health‐based reasons. With this mainstreaming, veganism has become contentious and fiercely defended. As veganism has become a growing social and political force, geographers have started to take notice of this previously fringe movement, which is gaining economic, ecological, and cultural power as investment flows into ‘plant‐based’ products and new markets are emerging. In this commentary, we look at how veganism has recently been taken up in Geography via several distinct trends that all stake a claim in defining an emerging geographical sub‐discipline, vegan geographies. We note the importance of scholarly pluralism and attention to establishing geographical sub‐disciplines more broadly.

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“…Both in the case of slavery (Pearson and Richardson, 2019) and in the case of animal production (Schlemmer et al, 2018), this often entails not considering subjects as living (and feeling) beings, even treating them legally as mere objects. This step is necessary to separate the treatment of slaves or animals from how it is believed that humans should be treated (Wrenn, 2015).…”

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Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Mann

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe market for slaves is one of the few cases where trade is banned for moral reasons in every country. While animal activists often link animal production to slavery, they fail to answer the question about why animal production persists in every country, while slavery is banned everywhere.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose of this paper is to show both parallels and differences between slavery and animal production, both from a historic and systematic perspective.FindingsIt can be shown that the claim about the many philosophical parallels between slavery and animal production is justified, but that the political economy between the cases differs strongly, particularly regarding the distribution of benefits.Practical implicationsThe paper argues that the food industry will play a decisive role in the future of animal production.Social implicationsThe loss of jobs would certainly be an issue if animal production was banned, whereas the labor market effects of abolition were more complex.Originality/valueWhile the comparison is not new, this is the first holistic evaluation of it.

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A Rational Approach to Animal Rights

Cited by 24 publications

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A Kantian Argument Against Using Animals

A Kantian Argument Against Using Animals

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Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

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