{"title":"Animal Consciousness and Human Compassion","authors":"D. Crosby","doi":"10.1163/25889567-20220407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25889567-20220407","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Bernard E. Rollin devoted much of his life to arguing and working for compassionate attitudes toward and appropriate ethical treatments of nonhuman animals. This essay exhibits the close link he insisted on between such attitudes and treatments, on the one hand, and acknowledgment of types and degrees of consciousness in many species of such animals, on the other. Not only are many animals capable of conscious suffering in his view; they are also capable of conscious memory, regret, anticipation, disappointment, affection, delight, and the like. Rollin argues that each species of nonhuman animal has its own distinctive telos or characteristic way of living that should also elicit and demand the respect of human beings. Recognition of and respect for each animal’s way of life and extent of conscious awareness are essential to understanding how empathy and ethics are conjoined and should always be conjoined in the field of animal ethics.","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80664915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Animal Telos and Preference Adaptation","authors":"T. Milligan","doi":"10.1163/25889567-20220406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25889567-20220406","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article considers Bernard Rollin’s justification of the genetic modification of the telos of livestock animals for welfare purposes. While agreeing that a pragmatic approach to animal welfare might well reach this far, the claim is that Rollin’s approach leaves some important harms out of the picture. Section (1) will outline the rationale for a pragmatic approach towards animal rights. Section (2) will outline Rollin’s telos-based argument for allowing modification. Sections (3) and (4) will draw upon analogies that (respectively) lend support to and problematize Rollin’s telos-based argument: the production of anencephalic ‘Chicken Little’ lumps of animal tissue as a way to avoid suffering; and the manipulation of preferences by ‘hypnopaedia’ in Huxley’s Brave New World. Section (5) will suggest that this does not rule out modification, but it does require us to recognize that modification involves harms, even if they are sometimes outweighed by benefits.","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"149 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82898623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Worry about Telos Theory","authors":"P. Markie","doi":"10.1163/25889567-20220408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25889567-20220408","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000With his account of the rights stemming from the telos-based interests of nonhuman animals, Bernard Rollin in, A New Basis for Animal Ethics, advances our understanding of animal ethics in a way that both can and should guide our behavior. Nonetheless, telos theory needs to be developed to capture the existence of moral rights that are not based in particular aspects of an animal’s telos. I argue for the existence and importance of such rights, propose a way to capture them within telos theory, and consider their implication for the argument from marginal cases.","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"159 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77144730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sodium Bicarbonate and Acetic Acid: An Effective Anaesthetic for Three Spotted Tilapia, Oreochromis andersonii Fingerlings","authors":"Wilhelm Haihambo, N. N. Gabriel","doi":"10.1163/25889567-bja10028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25889567-bja10028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study aimed to study the effectiveness of different concentrations of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) combined with acetic acid (vinegar) in three spotted tilapia (Oreochromis andersonii) fingerlings. Fingerlings (body weight 0.82 ± 0.00 g, and body length of 3.91 ± 0.03 cm) were subjected to three concentrations of sodium bicarbonate (30 g/L, 40 g/L and 60 g/L) combined with three concentrations of acetic acid (30 ml/L, 45 ml/L and 60 ml/L), each replicated five times to assess the anaesthesia induction and recovery time. Sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid induced anaesthesia in three spotted tilapia fingerlings regardless of the concentration used. However, high concentrations induced anaesthesia within a short period of time. Meanwhile, the full recovery time increased with concentration combinations. In essence, low concentrations of sodium bicarbonate and acetic could be recommended for anaesthetizing three spotted tilapia fingerlings. However, more studies on sodium bicarbonate and acetic acids as anaesthetics in aquaculture and fisheries is deemed necessary.","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82916250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment","authors":"Ángela Fernández","doi":"10.5406/21601267.12.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73303872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You Can't Betray a Fish: One Reason Eating Fish May Cause Less Harm Than Eating Cows","authors":"Ronald G. Oldfield","doi":"10.5406/21601267.12.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?, Bohanec (2013) proposed that farmed animals raised humanely may experience betrayal when slaughtered. I argue based on personal experience that humans often betray trust relationships with farmed animals. Using published scientific literature, I find that typical farmed animals (mammals) and farmed fishes are both cognitively capable of a rudimentary experience of betrayal. However, the manner in which fishes are typically maintained does not present opportunities for human-fish trust relationships to develop. Eating farmed fishes presents fewer ethical implications than eating cows, at least in some cases.","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"15 1","pages":"51 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87279078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing the Dead Sea to Life: Art and Nature at the Lowest Place on Earth by Hadas Marcus and Yossi Leshem (review)","authors":"Linda M. Johnson","doi":"10.5406/21601267.12.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"• How would other nonhuman species who also share the environment engage and exist within these spaces? • <bullet point>Would or could there be any feasible ceding of land sovereignty to nonhuman species when the principle of land sovereignty is based on human-made political and legal principles and, indeed, while indigenous human populations continue to struggle for their sovereignty to be recognized and respected?","PeriodicalId":73601,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied animal ethics research","volume":"4 1","pages":"111 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81558763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}