From Compassion to Consumption: Veterinary Ethics and Veganism
From Compassion to Consumption: Veterinary Ethics and Veganism
ETHICAL GLOBE: Given their oath to ensure the health and welfare of all animals, veterinary professionals have a moral responsibility to reject animal exploitation and cruelty by adopting a vegan lifestyle. The article also highlights changes within veterinary education and features examples of vegan vets and organisations advocating for plant-based lifestyles in the profession… If a veterinary professional rejects animal exploitation, suffering and cruelty for those animals in their care and in general, surely this must apply to all species? But most veterinary professionals who care for cats, dogs and other animal companions will happily eat pigs, cows, and chickens, […]
FREEDOM ROAD: How far should we carry the logic of the animal rights movement?
FREEDOM ROAD: How far should we carry the logic of the animal rights movement?
KALEFA SANNEH: There is a name for the cruel, and correspondingly clandestine, process by which many animals become meat: “factory farming,” a term that is usually wielded as an insult, especially since the publication, in 1975, of “Animal Liberation,” an incendiary book by the philosopher Peter Singer. “In general, we are ignorant of the abuse of living creatures that lies behind the food we eat,” Singer wrote, and he wanted to destroy both this ignorance and the industry behind the abuse. He halfway succeeded. “Animal Liberation” helped bring new militancy to a cause formerly associated with decorous humane societies and […]
BRED FOR ‘BREAD’: The dark reality of profit-driven wildlife farms
BRED FOR ‘BREAD’: The dark reality of profit-driven wildlife farms
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: An estimated 5.5 billion wild animals are being kept in cruel conditions on commercial wildlife farms, new research by World Animal Protection reveals… ‘Bred for Profit: The Truth About Global Wildlife Farming‘ report reveals for the first time the vast scale of this exploitative industry in which billions of wild animals are bred to be traded as pets, used for entertainment or tourist attractions, and turned into ornaments, luxury food, fashion products or traditional medicine (TM). Researchers found an astonishing lack of transparency and inadequate monitoring across the global multi-billion-dollar industry, where sentient animals are treated as […]
