animal ethics
Fauna welfare philosophy
Animal ethics is the branch of moral philosophy concerned with how humans should treat nonhuman animals.
It examines questions of animal welfare, rights, and moral status: Animal ethics asks whether we can justify factory farming.
The field covers issues from meat consumption and animal experimentation to wildlife conservation and pet ownership.
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- well-beingState of health, contentment
- biocentrismLife as moral center
- ecofeminismTheory linking female oppression, ecological destruction
abolitionism · utilitarianism · liberation movements · humane treatment · consequentialism · intrinsic value · moral agency · cruelty prevention · legal personhood · deontology · veterinary care · lab rats · habitat protection · meat industry · slaughter · cage free · humane · welfare
- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism
- animal ethicshumane treatment, ethical treatment, sentient beings, cruelty prevention, humane slaughter
- animal welfarehumane societies, humane treatment, shelters, SPCA, cruelty-free
- animals and humanspets, cats, dogs, pet ownership, companion animals
- livestockcow, cows, cattle, bull, bulls
- bioethicsbioethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence, physician-assisted death
animal ethicsspeciesism
Moral preference by organism type
anthropocentrism · human exceptionalism · animal cruelty · factory farming · vivisection